שָׁדַד (šādad) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning deal violently with. It appears
58 times
in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7703).
Also rendered
to ruin
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2331)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2331)deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin; violently destroy, slay; we are utterly ruined; be devastated; be burly, powerful, impregnable, ravage, swell up; dead, destroy, destroyer, oppress, robber, spoil, spoiler, waste
Strong's H7703שָׁדַד: properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage KJV:dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), × utterly, (lay) waste.
Strong's H7736שׁוּד: properly, to swell up, i.e. figuratively (by implication of insolence) to devastate KJV:waste.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.