# H8045 שָׁמַד

שָׁמַד (shâmad), Strong’s H8045: to desolate KJV: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly.. Occurs 90 times.

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*shâmad* — to desolate

KJV: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly.

Occurs 90 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁמַד] 90 vb. Niph. be exterminated, destroyed
- Hiph. 69
- 1 annihilate, exterminate
- 2 destroy

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 34:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=30) — Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…
- [Leviticus 26:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=30) — I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your…
- [Numbers 33:52](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/33?v=52) — then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all…
- [Deuteronomy 1:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=27) — You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to…
- [Deuteronomy 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=12) — The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before…
- [Deuteronomy 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=21) — a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them…
- [Deuteronomy 2:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=22) — as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they…
- [Deuteronomy 2:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=23) — Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived…
- [Deuteronomy 4:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=3) — Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed all the men who…
- [Deuteronomy 4:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=26) — I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go…