- Original: שׁוּד - Transliteration: Shuwd - Phonetic: shood - Definition: 1. (Qal) to ruin, destroy, spoil, devastate - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2331 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to swell up that is figuratively (by implication of insolence) to devastate: - waste. Total KJV Occurrences: 1 • wasteth, 1 Psalm 91:6