מַשְׁחִית

mash.chit

destruction

Strong’s H4889Noun, masculine12 times in the Hebrew Bible

destruction11

a destroyer1

In the text

Exodus 12:13לְמַשְׁחִית
The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
2 Kings 23:13הַמַּשְׁחִית
The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
2 Chronicles 20:23לְמַשְׁחִית
The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
Proverbs 18:9מַשְׁחִית
Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
Jeremiah 5:26מַשְׁחִית
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
Ezekiel 5:16לְמַשְׁחִית
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

מַשְׁחִית n.[m.] ruin, destruction

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.