שׁוּד shûwd — properly, to swell up, i.e. figuratively (by implication of insolence) to devastate
Translated in the KJV as waste.
a primitive root; properly, to swell up, i.e. figuratively (by implication of insolence) to devastate.
shûwd in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יָשׁ֥וּד Ps 91:6 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
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 ›