Lexicon
שְׁחַת
she.chat
H7844
A:V Hebrew

to corrupt

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Hebrew
Language

she.chat describes something presented as corrupt in the supplied Daniel contexts.

The attested forms describe corruption: Daniel 2:9 places it with speech described in the APB as “lying and corrupt,” while Daniel 6:5 uses the same passive-participle form in a clause whose specific English correspondence is not clear in the translation.

Senses in use

  1. Corrupt or compromised matter · dominant

    In Daniel 2:9, the feminine singular absolute Qal passive participle occurs in the accusation that the hearers have agreed to speak before the king; the APB renders the clause “a lying and corrupt word.” In Daniel 6:5, the same morphology occurs in the search for an occasion against Daniel, but the APB does not make the term’s individual contribution identifiable.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Daniel 2:9, the APB includes “corrupt” in the phrase “a lying and corrupt word.” In Daniel 6:5, the translation gives the search for an occasion against Daniel without an identifiable English counterpart for the term.

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