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There is another root, ḫ-r-m, which can mean to destroy or annihilate. [8] In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh the verb form occurs 51 times, while the noun occurs 38 times. [9] [2] Although the word basically means something devoted or given over to God (as in Leviticus 27:28), it often refers to "a ban for utter destruction". [2]
War Department General Orders 66, 15 August 1944: 26 and 27 June 1944 – The stubborn desire of the men to close with a numerically superior enemy and the rapidity with which they fought enabled the 100th Infantry Battalion to destroy completely the right flank positions of a German army, killing at least 178 Germans, wounding approximately 20 ...
Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]
Varying intensity of Russian air and drone strikes suggests Moscow is unable – or unwilling – to completely destroy Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) analyst ...
The saying Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, sometimes given in Latin as Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) or Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius (literally: Those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) has been used in English literature since at least the 17th century.
Participants burn a large effigy adorned with an Israeli flag during Quds Day in Tehran, 2016. There have been explicit or implicit expressions, statements, and rhetoric advocating for the elimination of the State of Israel as a political entity.
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.
The National Library was completely destroyed in the fire, along with 80 per cent of its contents. Some 3 million books were destroyed, along with hundreds of original documents from the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. [26] 2004 unrest in Kosovo. [27]