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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; —
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.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:37 - “You shall become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, a proverb, and a byword among all the people where Yahweh drives you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - “Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror H8047, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - “Now do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, as you see.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 -

Come, behold the works of Yahweh,

[fn]Who has appointed desolations H8047 in the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 -

How they become desolate H8047 in a moment!

They are completely swept away by terrors!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 -

In my ears Yahweh of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate H8047,

Even great and good ones, without inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 -

Behold, the day of Yahweh is coming,

Cruel, with fury and burning anger,

To make the land a desolation H8047;

And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 -

Desolation H8047 remains in the city,

And the gate is struck down to ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 -

“The young lions have roared at him;

They have given forth their voice.

And they have made his land a desolation H8047;

His cities have been turned into ruin, without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 -

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,

And a destroyer of nations has set out;

He has gone out from his place

To make your land a desolation H8047.

Your cities will be turned into ruins

Without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 -

“A horrible H8047 and appalling thing

Has happened in the land:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 -

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;

I mourn, desolation H8047 has taken hold of me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 -

To make their land an object H8047 of horror H8047,

An object of perpetual hissing;

Everyone who passes by it will be [fn]horrified

And shake his head.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will also make this city an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be [fn]horrified and hiss because of all its [fn]slaughtering.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [fn]devote them to destruction and make them an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - ‘This whole land will be a waste place and an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 -

“He has forsaken His hiding place like the lion;

For their land has become an object H8047 of horror H8047

Because of the burning desire of [fn]the oppressor

And because of His burning anger.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - ‘I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will give them over to be a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an object H8047 of horror H8047 and of hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have banished them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 -

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, an imprecation, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their face on entering the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and [fn]meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse, an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, an imprecation, and a reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - “So Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have done; thus your land has become a waste place, an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, and an imprecation, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 -

“Make your baggage ready for exile,

O inhabitant of the daughter of Egypt,

For Memphis will become a desolation H8047;

It will even be turned into ruin and without inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 -

“Give [fn]wings to Moab,

For she will [fn]flee away;

And her cities will become a desolation H8047,

Without inhabitants in them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” declares Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, a reproach, a ruin, and an imprecation; and all its cities will become perpetual [fn]ruins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 -

“Edom will become [fn]an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047; everyone who passes by it will [fn]be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 -

“For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off; they have gone away!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 -

“How the hammer of the whole earth

Has been cut in pieces and broken!

How Babylon has become

An object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 among the nations!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 -

So the land quakes and writhes,

For the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand,

To make the land of Babylon

[fn]A desolation H8047 without inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 -

“Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,

An object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and hissing, without inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 -

“How [fn]Sheshak has been captured,

And the praise of the whole earth been seized!

How Babylon has become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 among the nations!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 -

“Her cities have become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047,

A parched land, and a desert,

A land in which no man lives

And through which no son of man passes.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 -

‘You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

The cup of horror H8047 and desolation,

The cup of your sister Samaria.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 -

Ephraim will become a desolation H8047 in the day of reproof;

Among the tribes of Israel I will make known what is true.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 -

It has made my vine a desolation H8047

And my fig tree [fn]splinters.

It has stripped them bare and cast them away;

Their branches have become white.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 -

“The statutes of Omri

And all the works of the house of Ahab are kept;

And in their counsels you walk.

Therefore I will give you up as an object H8047 of horror H8047

And [fn]your inhabitants as an object of hissing,

And you will bear the reproach of My people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 -

This is the exultant city

Which inhabits securely,

Who says in her heart,

“I am, and there is no one besides me.”

How she has become an object H8047 of horror H8047,

A resting place for beasts!

Everyone who passes by her will hiss

And wave his hand in contempt.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - “but I [fn]scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them [fn]so that no one was passing through and returning, for they made the pleasant land desolate H8047.”
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