shedefa · blight

What it means

shedefa (שְׁדֵפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blight”.

Damage to grain scorched by the dry wind.

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. A plague that scorches and dries the grain.
2. Burnt and dried by the hot wind.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• blight ×5
• scorched ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Amos×1
• Haggai×1

• Deuteronomy 28:22

  YHWH will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish.

• 1 Kings 8:37

  If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper, if there are these; if his enemy besieges him in the land of his gates; any sore, any sickness;

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

• 2 Chronicles 6:28

  When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there are blight and mildew, locust and hopper; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; any sore and any sickness;

• Amos 4:9

  I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the cutting locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

• Haggai 2:17

  I struck you with blight and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and you did not turn to me, declares YHWH.