שָׁמַד shâmad — to desolate
Translated in the KJV as destory, bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.
a primitive root; to desolate.
shâmad in each stem
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 25Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Perfect (qatal) 12Wayyiqtol 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Cohortative 2Infinitive absolute 2Imperative 1
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 8Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive absolute 1
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›