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Psalms 12:6
“The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שֹׁדshôd · shode
H7701 · Hebrew
H7701 · Hebrew
- Definition
- violence, ravage
- Derivation
- or שׁוֹד; (Job 5:21), from H7736 (שׁוּד);
- KJV renderings
- desolation, destruction, oppression, robbery, spoil(-ed, -er, -ing), wasting.
- Grammar
- מִ — preposition
- שֹּׁ֥ד — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 25 times in the Hebrew Bible.Job 5:21Job 5:22Proverbs 21:7Proverbs 24:2Isaiah 13:6
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 שֹׁד 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.