Devastate
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Greek
3075. lumainomai -- to outrage, to corrupt
... corrupt. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: lumainomai Phonetic Spelling:
(loo-mah'-ee-nom-ahee) Short Definition: I ravage, harry, devastate Definition: ...
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Strong's Hebrew
7703. shadad -- to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin
... shadad. 7704 . to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin. Transliteration:
shadad Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-dad') Short Definition: destroyed. ...
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7736. shud -- waste
... waste A primitive root; properly, to swell up, ie Figuratively (by implication of
insolence) to devastate -- waste. 7735, 7736. shud. 7737 . Strong's Numbers
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1238b. baqaq -- to empty
... root Definition to empty NASB Word Usage completely laid waste (1), demoralized
(1), devastate (1), devastators have devastated (1), lays the waste (1), make ...
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7843. shachath -- perhaps to go to ruin
... corrupted (4), depravity (1), destroy (69), destroyed (14), destroyer (4), destroyers
(1), destroying (7), destroys (5), destruction (2), devastate (1), felled ...
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8074. shamem -- to be desolated or appalled
... A primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), ie Devastate or (figuratively)
stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) -- make amazed, be astonied ...
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Library

Of the Three Woe Trumpets.
... It sent forth those horrid troops of locusts, issuing from the smoke of the Tartarean
abyss, now opened by the work of Satan, to devastate the globe; that is ...
/.../mede/a key to the apocalypse/of the three woe trumpets.htm

Successors of Theodosius the Great. Rufinus, the Pr??torian
... [1579] Rufinus, prefect of the East, was suspected of having clandestinely invited
them to devastate the Roman territories, in furtherance of his own ambitious ...
/.../chapter i successors of theodosius the.htm

The Calamities of the Jews During Trajan's Reign.
... But the Jews of Cyrene, although deprived of their aid, continued to plunder the
land of Egypt and to devastate its districts, [977] under the leadership of ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter ii the calamities of the.htm

Letter Xl. Julian to Basil.
... I mean too to devastate the country of the Indians and the Saracens until they
all acknowledge my superiority and become my tributaries. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter xl julian to basil.htm

An Instructive Truth
... Suppose that the Lord allows Nebuchadnezzar to devastate the land that he gave to
his people by covenant; it is God who permits it, therefore think not thou so ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 50 1904/an instructive truth.htm

God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men.
... it, and carried away all the substance which was found in the king's house." [3199]
Here it is shown that God stirs up enemies to devastate the countries which ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 42 xxigod does whatsoever.htm

Introductory the Apostle Paul Himself not the Preacher of a New ...
... of the tribe of Benjamin, a voracious wolf, devouring his prey in the morning: in
order words, in the early period of his life he would devastate the Lord's ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter i introductory the apostle paul.htm

The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne
... God's judgments upon a people. Famine and war devastate, but the devout
soul abides in peace, and is satisfied. Now it is not true ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the peaceable fruits of sorrows.htm

The Close of the Theban Empire
... of Memphis to the town of Qarbina: the Canopic branch of the Nile now formed the
limit of their dominion, and they often crossed it to devastate the central ...
/.../chapter iiithe close of the.htm

Thou Shalt not Steal.
... in one hour empty our coffers and purses, and do not quit as long as we have a farthing
left, and in addition, by way of thanks, burn and devastate house and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/the large catechism/thou shalt not steal.htm

Thesaurus
Devastate (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vt) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Multi-Version Concordance Devastate (8 Occurrences). Leviticus ...
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Devastated (20 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Devastate. Multi-Version Concordance
Devastated (20 Occurrences). 2 Kings 19:17 Truly, Yahweh ...
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Spoiler (11 Occurrences)
... er (ha-shodhedh, "the spoiler"): A favorite expression of the prophet Jeremiah by
which he describes generally the enemies that invade and devastate a country ...
/s/spoiler.htm - 11k

Waste (668 Occurrences)
... paper. 3. (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. 4. (v.)
To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. 5 ...
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Sack (15 Occurrences)
... ravage. 11. (vt) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate;
to ravage. Multi-Version Concordance Sack (15 Occurrences). ...
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Havoc (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation;
waste. 2. (vt) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste. ...
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Locust (25 Occurrences)
... us in assuming it to be one of the swarming species, ie Pachtylus migratorius or
Schistocerca peregrina, which from time to time devastate large regions in the ...
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Deuteronomy (1 Occurrence)

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Devastating (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate. Multi-Version
Concordance Devastating (1 Occurrence). Leviticus 11:22 Even ...
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Resources
Why did God use a locust swarm to punish Israel (Joel 1:4)? | GotQuestions.org

Why was the altar in Joshua 22:10 34 such a big deal? | GotQuestions.org

Devastate: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Devastate (8 Occurrences)

Leviticus 26:32
I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.
(See RSV)

Joshua 22:33
The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.
(See NIV)

Judges 6:5
For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
(See NAS)

Job 12:15
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 24:1
See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 49:28
Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 51:2
I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.
(See NAS NIV)

Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.
(See NIV)

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Devastate

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