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H4889 · מַשְׁחִית

mashchîyth · mash-kheeth' · destroy, corruption, destruction

H4889 (mashchîyth, pronounced mash-kheeth') is the Hebrew word מַשְׁחִית in Strong’s dictionary: destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption). It appears 12 times in 12 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).

Strong’s entry

Original word
מַשְׁחִית (Hebrew)
Transliteration
mashchîyth
Pronunciation
mash-kheeth'
Derivation
from H7843 (שָׁחַת);
Definition
destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption)
Rendered in the KJV
corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap, [idiom] utterly.

In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)

12 occurrences in 12 verses (11 with English words of their own, 1 in the original with no English word of their own).

How the BSB renders it

By book

Exodus 1 · 2 Kings 1 · 2 Chronicles 2 · Proverbs 1 · Jeremiah 2 · Ezekiel 4 · Daniel 1

Verses

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