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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 BoxDeu 28:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:37 - And thou shalt be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God shall carry thee away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because thy heart was softened, and thou wast humbled before me, when thou heardest all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be [fn]utterly destroyed and accursed, and thou didst rend thy garments, and weep before me; I also have heard, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - And the Lord was very angry with Juda and Jerusalem, and made them an astonishment, and a desolation, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - And be not as your fathers, and your brethren, who revolted from the Lord God of their fathers, and he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - (LXX 45:9) Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - (LXX 72:19) How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be [fn]escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - The lion is gone up from his lair, he has roused himself to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - (LXX 32:18) Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - (LXX 32:38) He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - (LXX 49:18) For thus saith the Lord; As my wrath has dropped upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drop upon you, when ye have entered into Egypt: and ye shall be a desolation, and under the power of others, and a curse and a reproach: and ye shall no more see this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - (LXX 51:12) to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - (LXX 51:22) And the Lord could no longer bear you, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - (LXX 26:19) O daughter of Egypt dwelling at home, prepare thee stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - (LXX 31:9) Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - (LXX 30:7) for by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou shalt be in the midst of her an impassable land, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - (LXX 30:11) And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - (LXX 27:3) For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - (LXX 27:23) How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - (LXX 28:29) The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - (LXX 28:37) And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - (LXX 28:41) How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - (LXX 28:43) Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one man shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of thy sister Samaria,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim has come to nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has [fn]peeled its branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - For thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and done all the works of the house of Achaab; and ye have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee to utter destruction, and those that inhabit the city to hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! every one that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yea they have made the choice land a desolation.
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