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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 - You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - Therefore the wrath of the LORD was on Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - Come, see the LORD's works, What desolations he has made in the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - In my ears, the LORD of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it 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 struck with destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions have roared on 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 your land desolate, that your 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 happen 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 has 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; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

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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, says the LORD, and I will send to Nevukhadretztzar the king of Bavel, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, 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 - This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Bavel seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - to wit, Yerushalayim, and the cities of Yehudah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, 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 has 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 - I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the eretz, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Mitzrayim; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will take the remnant of Yehudah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Mitzrayim to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Mitzrayim shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, 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 the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you 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 - You daughter who dwell in Mitzrayim, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Mof 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 to Mo'av, 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, says the LORD, that Botzrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For out of the north there comes 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 animal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How is the hammer of the whole eretz cut apart and broken! how is Bavel become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Bavel do stand, to make the land of Bavel a desolation, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - Bavel 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 Sheshakh taken! and the praise of the whole eretz seized! how is Bavel 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 in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Shomron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Efrayim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Yisra'el, I have made known that which will surely be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches 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 Ach'av. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will 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 lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

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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 made the pleasant land desolate."
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