tsamat · destroy, silence

What it means

tsamat (צָמַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “destroy, silence”.

To make an end of someone, to annihilate, to silence forever.

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. To destroy someone, or vanish.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• annihilate ×6
• I annihilated them ×2
• I will destroy ×2
• They have ended ×1
• has consumed me ×1
• have annihilated me ×1
• they vanish ×1
• vanished ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×11
• Lamentations×1

• 2 Samuel 22:41

  My enemies you made turn their backs to me; those who hate me, I annihilated them.

• Job 6:17

  When they grow warm, they vanish; in the heat they are extinguished from their place.

• Job 23:17

  For I have not vanished before darkness, though gloom covers my face.

• Psalms 18:40

  My enemies you made turn their backs to me; those who hate me, I annihilated them.

• Psalms 54:5

  He will return the evil on those who lie in wait for me; in your faithfulness annihilate them.

• Psalms 69:4

  More than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would annihilate me, my enemies with lies; what I did not steal, then I restore.

• Psalms 73:27

  For look, those far from you will perish; you annihilate all who prostitute themselves away from you.

• Psalms 88:16

  Over me your burning angers have passed; your horrors have annihilated me.

• Psalms 94:23

  And he will turn back upon them their wickedness, and in their evil he will annihilate them; YHWH our Elohim will annihilate them.

• Psalms 101:5

  Whoever slanders in secret his neighbor, him I will destroy; whoever is high of eyes and wide of heart, him I will not endure.

• Psalms 101:8

  Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off from the city of YHWH all those who work wickedness.

• Psalms 119:139

  My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten your words.

• Psalms 143:12

  And in your loyal love annihilate my enemies, and destroy all who attack my soul, for I am your servant.

• Lamentations 3:53

  They have ended in the cistern my life and cast a stone on me.

And 1 more times.