Tsamath means “consume” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6789 צָּמַת (tsamath) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsamath (tsaw-math') v. 1. to extirpate (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include destroy and vanish. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsamath (tsaw-math') v. 1. to extirpate (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] KJV: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6789. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to destroy
Usage: 1) to put an end to, cut off, destroy, exterminate, extirpate 1a) (Qal) to put an end to, terminate 1b) (Niphal) to be ended, be annihilated, be exterminated 1c) (Piel) to put an end to 1d) (Pilel) to be exterminated, be annihilated 1e) (Hiphil) to exterminate, annihilate
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsamath, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6789.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6789, grouped by book.
Tsamath (Strong's H6789) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "consume". tsamath (tsaw-math') v. 1. to extirpate (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H6789 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6789 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as destroy and vanish. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
