mashchit · destroyer; destruction

What it means

mashchit (מַשְׁחִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “destroyer; destruction”.

The one who destroys; destruction, corruption.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Total ruin, or a face marred by fear or misfortune.
2. What destroys: a plague, a mountain or a power that devastates.
3. A trap that catches people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• destruction ×5
• destroy ×2
• destroying ×2
• disfigurement ×1
• trap ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1

• Exodus 12:13

  The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no destroying plague will be among you when I strike the land of Egypt.

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The high places that were facing Jerusalem, which were to the right of the Mount of Destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Astarte, the detestable thing of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king made unclean.

• 2 Chronicles 20:23

  The sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, to devote them to destruction and to destroy them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped each to destroy his fellow.

• 2 Chronicles 22:4

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

• Jeremiah 5:26

  For among my people are found wicked men; they watch like the crouching of fowlers; they set a trap; they catch men.

• Jeremiah 51:25

  Look, I am against you, destroying mountain, declares YHWH, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a mountain of burning.

• Ezekiel 5:16

  When I send the evil arrows of famine against them, which are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and famine I will add on you, and I will break for you the staff of bread.

• Ezekiel 9:6

  Old man, young man, and virgin, and little ones, and women, kill to destruction; but any man on whom is the mark, do not come near; and from my sanctuary begin.” And they began with the men, the elders who were before the house.

• Ezekiel 21:31

  And I will pour out on you my indignation; with the fire of my wrath I will blow on you; and I will give you into the hand of brutish men, craftsmen of destruction.

• Ezekiel 25:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because the Philistines acted with vengeance and took vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy, with eternal enmity,

• Daniel 10:8

  So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me, and my splendor was turned on me into disfigurement, and I did not retain strength.