שָׁחַת (šāḥat) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning go to ruin. It appears
147 times
in 25 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7843).
Also rendered
to ruin
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2370)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2370)go to ruin; be marred, spoiled; ruin, pervert, corrupt; decay; batter, cast off, corrupter, destroy, destroyer, destruction, lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, waste, waster
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
שָׁחַתverb: go to ruin
Niphalbe marred, spoiled
Piel
1.spoil, ruin
2.pervert, corrupt
Hiphil
1.spoil, ruin
2.pervert, corrupt
Hophalspoiled, ruined
Strong's H7843שָׁחַת: to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively) KJV:batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).
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.