# H4889 מַשְׁחִית

מַשְׁחִית (mashchîyth), Strong’s H4889: destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption) KJV: corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap…

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*mashchîyth* — destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption)

KJV: corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap, [idiom] utterly.

Derived from [שָׁחַת shâchath](https://besorah.bible/word/H7843) (to decay)

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַשְׁחִית n.[m.] ruin, destruction

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 12:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=13) — The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no…
- [2 Kings 23:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=13) — The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of…
- [Jeremiah 5:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=26) — For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
- [Jeremiah 51:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=25) — “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the LORD, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my…
- [Ezekiel 5:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/5?v=16) — when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will…
- [Ezekiel 9:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/9?v=6) — Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is…
- [Ezekiel 21:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/21?v=36) — I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand…
- [Ezekiel 25:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/25?v=15) — “‘The Lord GOD says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to…
- [Daniel 10:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/10?v=8) — So I was left alone and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I…
- [2 Chronicles 20:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/20?v=23) — For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them…