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Strong's H7703 שָׁדַד (shadad)

Shadad means “dead” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H7703
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 47
Books 13

Strong's H7703 Quick Answer

Strong's H7703 שָׁדַד (shadad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shadad (shaw-dad') v. 1. (properly) to be burly 2. (figuratively) to be powerful It has 47 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include spoiled, spoil, destroyed, robbers, and destroy. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shadad (shaw-dad') v. 1. (properly) to be burly 2. (figuratively) to be powerful
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
spoiled, spoil, destroyed, robbers, and destroy

Meaning and Definition

shadad (shaw-dad') v. 1. (properly) to be burly 2. (figuratively) to be powerful 3. (passively) to be impregnable 4. (by implication) to ravage [a primitive root] KJV: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), X utterly, (lay) waste.

Original Word
שָׁדַד
Transliteration
shadad
Derivation
Root: שׁדד
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7703. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to ruin

Usage: 1) to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin, destroy, spoil 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to violently destroy, devastate, despoil, assail 1a2) devastator, despoiler (participle) (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be utterly ruined 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to assault 1c2) to devastate 1d) (Pual) to be devastated 1e) (Poel) to violently destroy 1f) (Hophal) to be devastated Also means: shud (שׁוּד "to waste" H7736)

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How Strong's H7703 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shadad, 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.

spoiled Jeremiah 4:13 15× spoil Proverbs 24:15 destroyed Psalms 137:8 destroy Proverbs 11:3 robbers Job 12:6 dead Judges 5:27 oppress Psalms 17:9 spoileth Isaiah 21:2

How Strong's H7703 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 47 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7703 by Corpus

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.

Strong's H7703 in the Old Testament

47 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Judges 5:27 KJV

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

Job 12:6 KJV

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Job 15:21 KJV

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7703.

Judges 5:27 Old Testament, KJV
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Job 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job 15:21 Old Testament, KJV
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Psalms 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Psalms 137:8 Old Testament, KJV
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Proverbs 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 19:26 Old Testament, KJV
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Isaiah 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
Isaiah 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah 21:2 Old Testament, KJV
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Isaiah 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
Isaiah 33:1 Old Testament, KJV
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Jeremiah 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
Jeremiah 4:20 Old Testament, KJV
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah 4:30 Old Testament, KJV
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jeremiah 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah 6:26 Old Testament, KJV
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 9:19 Old Testament, KJV
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Jeremiah 10:20 Old Testament, KJV
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Jeremiah 12:12 Old Testament, KJV
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
Jeremiah 15:8 Old Testament, KJV
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Jeremiah 25:36 Old Testament, KJV
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
Jeremiah 47:4 Old Testament, KJV
Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
Jeremiah 48:1 Old Testament, KJV
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
Jeremiah 48:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
Jeremiah 48:15 Old Testament, KJV
Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 48:18 Old Testament, KJV
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
Jeremiah 48:20 Old Testament, KJV
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
Jeremiah 48:32 Old Testament, KJV
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Jeremiah 49:3 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah 49:10 Old Testament, KJV
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
Jeremiah 49:28 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
Jeremiah 51:48 Old Testament, KJV
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:53 Old Testament, KJV
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:55 Old Testament, KJV
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Jeremiah 51:56 Old Testament, KJV
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
Ezekiel 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
Hosea 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Hosea 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
Joel 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Obadiah 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
Micah 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Nahum 3:7 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Zechariah 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Zechariah 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7703, grouped by book.

Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 24 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H7703 FAQ

What does shadad (שָׁדַד) mean?

Shadad (Strong's H7703) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "dead". shadad (shaw-dad') v. 1. (properly) to be burly 2. (figuratively) to be powerful

How many times is shadad (שָׁדַד) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's H7703 across 13 books.

Where can I study shadad (שָׁדַד) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7703 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shadad (שָׁדַד)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as spoiled, spoil, destroyed, robbers, destroy, and dead. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.