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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Waste

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

64exact KJV occurrences 62Old Testament 2New Testament 21books containing the word 19mapped Strong's IDs 60occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Leviticus 26:31

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Mark 14:4

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where waste appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Leviticus 22 verses Numbers 11 verses Deuteronomy 11 verses 1 Kings 11 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 1 Chronicles 11 verses Nehemiah 22 verses Job 22 verses Psalms 22 verses Isaiah 1918 verses Jeremiah 66 verses Ezekiel 1413 verses Joel 11 verses Amos 22 verses Micah 11 verses Nahum 22 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Haggai 22 verses Malachi 11 verses Matthew 11 verses Mark 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8074
שָׁמֵם

shâmêm · shaw-mame'

5 times translated as this KJV form93 total Strong's occurrences

v

to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)

Strong's KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 21:30Strong's last: Amos 9:14

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HebrewH4875
מְשׁוֹאָה

mᵉshôwʼâh · meh-o-aw'

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)

Strong's KJV usage: desolation, waste.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 30:3Strong's last: Job 38:27

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HebrewH3615
כָּלָה

kâlâh · kaw-law'

1 times translated as this KJV form207 total Strong's occurrences

v

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Kings 17:14Strong's last: 1 Kings 17:14

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HebrewH5327
נָצָה

nâtsâh · naw-tsaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel

Strong's KJV usage: be laid waste, runinous, strive (together).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:7

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HebrewH7462
רָעָה

râʻâh · raw-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences

v

to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)

Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Micah 5:6Strong's last: Micah 5:6

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HebrewH8414
תֹּהוּ

tôhûw · to'-hoo

1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain

Strong's KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:10Strong's last: Deuteronomy 32:10

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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64 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Leviticus 26:31
H2723

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

Leviticus 26:33
H2723

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Numbers 21:30
H8074

We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

Deuteronomy 32:10
H8414

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

1 Kings 17:14
H3615

For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

2 Kings 19:25
H7582

Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

1 Chronicles 17:9
H1086

Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

Nehemiah 2:3
H2720

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Nehemiah 2:17
H2720

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Job 30:3
H4875

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 38:27
H4875

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

Psalms 79:7
H8074

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Psalms 80:13
H3765

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

Isaiah 5:6
H1326

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 5:17
no direct Strong's tag

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Isaiah 15:1
H7703

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 15:1
H7703

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 23:1
H7703

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
H7703

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Isaiah 24:1
H1110

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 33:8
H8074

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Isaiah 34:10
H2717

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Isaiah 37:18
H2717

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

Isaiah 37:26
H7582

Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 42:15
H2717

I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

waste

WASTE, verb transitive [G., Latin ]

1. To diminish by gradual dissipation or loss. Thus disease wastes the patient; sorrows waste the strength and spirits.

2. To cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or by injury. Thus cattle waste their fodder when fed in the open field.

3. To expend without necessity or use; to destroy wantonly or luxuriously; to squander; to cause to be lost through wantonness or negligence. Careless people waste their fuel, their food or their property. Children waster their inheritance.

And wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke 15:13.

4. To destroy in enmity; to desolate; as, to waste an enemys country.

5. To suffer to be lost unnecessarily; or to throw away; as, to waste the blood and treasure of a nation.

6. To destroy by violence.

The Tyber insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.

7. To impair strength gradually.

Now wasting years my former strength confounds.

8. To lose in idleness or misery; to wear out.

Here condemnd to waste eternal days in woe and pain.

9. To spend; to consume.

O were I able to waste it all myself, and leave you none.

10. In law, to damage, impair or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc. To go to decay. See the Noun.

11. To exhaust; to be consumed by time or mortality.

Till your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. Numbers 14:33.

12. To scatter and lose for want of use or of occupiers.

Full many a flowr is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

WASTE, verb intransitive

1. To dwindle; to be diminished; to lose bulk or substance gradually; as, the body wastes in sickness.

The barrel of meal shall not waste 1 Kings 17:14.

2. To be diminished or lost by slow dissipation, consumption or evaporation; as, water wastes by evaporation; fuel wastes in combustion.

3. To be consumed by time or mortality.

Gut man dieth, and wasteth away. Job 14:1.

WASTE, adjective

1. Destroyed; ruined.

The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat.

2. Desolate; uncultivated; as a waste country; a waste howling wilderness. Deuteronomy 32:10.

3. Destitute; stripped; as lands laid waste

4. Superfluous; lost for want of occupiers.

--And strangled with her waste fertility.

5. Worthless; that which is rejected, or used only for mean purposes; as waste wood.

6. That of which no account is taken, or of which no value is found; as waste paper.

7. Uncultivated; untilled; unproductive.

There is yet much waste land in England.

Laid waste desolated; ruined.

WASTE, noun

1. The act of squandering; the dissipation of property through wantonness, ambition, extravagance, luxury or negligence.

For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.

2. Consumption; loss; useless expense; any loss or destruction which is neither necessary nor promotive of a good end; a loss for which there is no equivalent; as a waste of goods or money; a waste of time; a waste of labor; a waste of words.

Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.

3. A desolate or uncultivated country. The plains of Arabia are mostly a wide waste

4. Land untilled, though capable of tillage; as the wastes in England.

5. Ground, space or place unoccupied; as the etherial waste

In the dead waste and middle of the night.

6. Region ruined and deserted.

All the leafy nation sinks at last, and Vulcan rides in triumph oer the waste

7. Mischief; destruction.

He will never, I think, in the way of waste attempt us again.

8. In law, spoil, destruction or injury done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. waste is voluntary, as by pulling down buildings; or permissive, as by suffering them to fall for want of necessary repairs. Whatever does a lasting damage to the freehold, is a waste

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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