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Strong’s H7833 · Hebrew

שָׁחַק

shâchaq · shaw-khak'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to comminate (by trituration or attrition)

In the King James Version beat, wear.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. Exodus 30:36And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
  2. 2 Samuel 22:43Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
  3. Job 14:19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
  4. Psalms 18:42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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