shod · destruction, violence

What it means

shod (שֹׁד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “destruction, violence”.

Devastation, ruin that comes with violence.

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. Ruin that sweeps away, or oppression of the weak.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• devastation ×15
• destruction ×9
• as Shalman destroyed ×1

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×4
• Joel×1
• Amos×3
• Habakkuk×2

• Job 5:21

  From the lash of the tongue you will be hidden, and you will not fear devastation when it comes.

• Job 5:22

  At devastation and at starvation you will laugh, and you will not fear the animals of the earth.

• Psalms 12:5

  “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, now I will arise,” says YHWH; “I will set in safety the one they snort at.”

• Proverbs 21:7

  The devastation of the wicked will drag them away, because they refuse to do justice.

• Proverbs 24:2

  for their heart meditates devastation, and their lips speak trouble.

• Isaiah 13:6

  Wail, for the day of YHWH is near; like devastation from Shaddai it will come.

• Isaiah 16:4

  Let my banished ones reside as aliens among you, Moab; be a hiding place for them from before the devastator. For the oppressor has come to an end, devastation has ceased, the tramplers have vanished from the land.

• Isaiah 22:4

  Therefore I said, “Look away from me; let me be bitter in weeping; do not hurry to comfort me over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”

• Isaiah 51:19

  These two things have befallen you —who will grieve for you?— the devastation and the breaking, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

• Isaiah 59:7

  Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; devastation and shattering are on their highways.

• Isaiah 60:18

  Violence will no longer be heard in your land, devastation and shattering within your borders; and you will call your walls “Salvation,” and your gates “Praise.”

• Jeremiah 6:7

  As a well pours out its waters, so she pours out her evil; violence and devastation are heard in her; before me continually are sickness and wounds.

• Jeremiah 20:8

  For whenever I speak, I cry out; “Violence and destruction!” I proclaim; for the word of YHWH has become for me a reproach and a derision all day long.

• Jeremiah 48:3

  A sound of crying from Horonaim: devastation and great breaking!

• Ezekiel 45:9

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Enough for you, chiefs of Israel! Remove violence and destruction, and do justice and righteousness; lift your evictions off my people, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Hosea 7:13

  Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have transgressed against me! And I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

• Hosea 9:6

  For look, they have gone because of the destruction; Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them; the precious things of their silver, nettles will possess them; thorns will be in their tents.

• Hosea 10:14

  And a tumult will rise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; the mother was dashed to pieces on her children.

• Hosea 12:1

  Ephraim feeds on wind, and pursues the east wind; all day he multiplies lies and destruction; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

• Joel 1:15

  Ah, the day! For near is the day of YHWH, and like destruction from Shaddai it will come.

• Amos 3:10

  And they do not know how to do what is right, declares YHWH, those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.

• Amos 5:9

  The one who makes destruction flash against the strong, and destruction comes against the fortress.

• Habakkuk 1:3

  Why do you make me see wickedness, and you look on trouble? Devastation and violence are before me; and there is dispute, and strife rises up.

• Habakkuk 2:17

  For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of human beings and violence done to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.

And 1 more times.