Original Language Studio
Jeremiah 48:15
“Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שָׁדַדshâdad · shaw-dad'
H7703 · Hebrew
H7703 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.
- Grammar
- שֻׁדַּ֤ד — verb Pual, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 58 times in the Hebrew Bible.Judges 5:27Job 12:6Job 15:21Psalms 17:9Psalms 137:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁדַד here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.