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title: שְׁמַד — destroy · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: שְׁמַד (lemma:שְׁמַד), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: destroy. BDB 1906: vb. destroy. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁמַד

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«שְׁמַד» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **destroy** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:שְׁמַד · **BDB:** שְׁמַד

### Glosses

annihilate (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

destroy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. destroy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5d3/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. destroy (𝔗 Pa. make apostatize; cf. BH);—Inf. לְהַשְׁמָדָה Dn 7:26 (obj. om., = dominion).

### Jastrow 1903

שְׁמַד: to force to apostasy to renounce one’s religion, apostatize [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5d3/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** to force to apostasy. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵃ bot. לא מתכוון מְשַמַּדְתְּכוֹן he has no intention to make you abandon your religion (to persecute you for your religion’s sake), but only to collect taxes \&c.; Y. Snh. III, 21ᵇ top משמדתהון (corr. acc.). Ib. לא אתכוון מְשַׁמַּדְתְּהוֹן וכ׳ he had no intention to force them to violate their religious laws, but merely wanted to eat fresh bread; Y. Shebi. l. c. מְשַׁמַּדְתּוֹן. to renounce one’s religion, apostatize. Targ. O. Ex. XII, 43 (h. text בן נכר).—Kidd. 72ᵃ שמתינהו … ואִישְׁתַּמּוּד R. A. excommunicated them, and they renounced Judaism.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁמַד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5d3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.26/)

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וְדִינָ֖א יִתִּ֑ב וְשָׁלְטָנֵ֣הּ יְהַעְדּ֔וֹן לְהַשְׁמָדָ֥ה וּלְהוֹבָדָ֖ה עַד־סוֹפָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the court it.will.sit and dominion his they.will.remove to annihilate and to destroy until the end

*JPS 1917:* But the judgment shall sit, and his dominions shall be taken away, to be consumed and to be destroy unto the end.

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