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Lexicon :: Strong's H8047 - šammâ

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שַׁמָּה
Transliteration
šammâ
Pronunciation
sham-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2409d

Strong’s Definitions

שַׁמָּה shammâh, sham-maw'; from H8074; ruin; by implication, consternation:—astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H8047 in the following manner: astonishment (13x), desolation (12x), desolate (10x), waste (3x), wonderful (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H8047 in the following manner: astonishment (13x), desolation (12x), desolate (10x), waste (3x), wonderful (1x).

  1. waste, horror, appalment

    1. a waste (of land, city, etc)

    2. appalment, horror

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שַׁמָּה shammâh, sham-maw'; from H8074; ruin; by implication, consternation:—astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
STRONGS H8047: Abbreviations
† I. שַׁמָּה noun feminine waste, appalment (24 times Jeremiah); — absolute שׁ׳ Jeremiah 5:30 +; plural absolute שַׁמּוֺת Psalm 46:9; —
1. a waste, of land, city, etc., Hosea 5:9; Isaiah 5:9; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 24:12; Zechariah 7:14; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 46:19; Jeremiah 48:9; Jeremiah 50:3; Jeremiah 51:29, 43, vine Joel 1:7; person Psalm 73:19; וּשְׁמָמָה כּוֺם שׁ׳ Ezekiel 23:33.
2. appalment, horror, i.e. occasion of it; of people land etc., Deuteronomy 28:37; 2 Kings 22:19; Micah 6:16; Zephaniah 2:15; Jeremiah 5:30; Jeremiah 25:9, 11, 18, 38; Jeremiah 29:18; Jeremiah 44:12, 22; Jeremiah 49:13, 17; Jeremiah 50:23; Jeremiah 51:37, 41; 2 Chronicles 29:8; 30:7; הֶחֱזִָק֑תְנִ׳ שׁ׳ Jeremiah 8:21.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

28:37

2 Kings

22:19

2 Chronicles

29:8; 30:7

Psalms

46:9; 73:19

Isaiah

5:9; 13:9; 24:12

Jeremiah

2:15; 4:7; 5:30; 5:30; 8:21; 18:16; 19:8; 25:9; 25:11; 25:18; 25:38; 29:18; 44:12; 44:22; 46:19; 48:9; 49:13; 49:17; 50:3; 50:23; 51:29; 51:37; 51:41; 51:43

Ezekiel

23:33

Hosea

5:9

Joel

1:7

Micah

6:16

Zephaniah

2:15

Zechariah

7:14

H8047

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8047 matches the Hebrew שַׁמָּה (šammâ),
which occurs 40 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:37 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 -
Come, behold the works of Jehovah,
What desolations he hath made in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 -
How are they become a desolation in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of his fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
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