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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 - “And you will become an object of horror H8047, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the LORD drives you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - since your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have indeed heard you,’ declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - “Therefore the wrath of the LORD 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 - “Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were untrue to the LORD God of their fathers, so that He made them an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, just as you see.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 -

Come, behold the works of the LORD,

[fn]Who has inflicted horrific H8047 events H8047 on the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 -

How they are [fn]destroyed H8047 in a moment!

They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 -

In my ears the LORD of armies has sworn, “Many houses shall certainly become desolate H8047,

Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 -

Behold, the day of the LORD 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 is left in the city

And the gate is battered to ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 -

“The young lions have roared at him,

They have [fn]roared loudly.

And they have made his land a waste H8047;

His cities have been destroyed, 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 waste H8047.

Your cities will be ruins,

Without an inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 -

“An appalling H8047 and horrible thing

Has happened in the land:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 -

I am broken over the brokenness of the daughter of my people.

I mourn, dismay H8047 has taken hold of me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 -

To make their land a desolation H8047,

An object of perpetual hissing;

Everyone who passes by it will be astonished

And shake his head.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will also turn this city into an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and [fn]hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and [fn]hiss because of all its [fn]disasters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the LORD, ‘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]completely destroy them and make them an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and [fn]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - ‘This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - To Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, [fn]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 -

“He has left His hiding place like the lion;

For their land has become a horror H8047

Because of the fierceness of the [fn]oppressing sword

And because of His fierce anger.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - ‘I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague; and I will make them an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047 and [fn]hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations where I have driven them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 -

For this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “As My anger and wrath have gushed out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will gush out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, [fn]an imprecation, and a disgrace; and you will not see this place again.”

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

“Make your baggage ready for exile,

Daughter living in Egypt,

For Memphis will become a desolation H8047;

It will be destroyed and [fn]deprived of 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 the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, a disgrace, a wasteland, and a curse; and all its cities will become permanent ruins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 -

“For a nation has come up against her from the north; it will make her land an object H8047 of H8047 horror H8047, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Whether people or animals, they have wandered off, they have gone!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 -

“How the hammer of the whole earth

Has been cut off 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 plans of the LORD 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 has 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 dry land and a desert,

A land in which no one lives

And through which no [fn]one of mankind passes.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 -

‘You will be filled with drunkenness and grief,

A 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 rebuke;

Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is trustworthy.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 -

It has made my vine a waste H8047

And my fig tree a stump.

It has stripped them bare and hurled them away;

Their branches have become white.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 -

“The statutes of Omri

And every work of the house of Ahab are maintained,

And you walk by their plans.

Therefore I will give you up for destruction H8047,

And [fn]your inhabitants for [fn]derision,

And you will suffer the taunting of My people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 -

This is the presumptuous city

That dwells securely,

Who says in her heart,

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

How she has become a desolation H8047,

A resting place for animals!

Everyone who passes by her will [fn]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 did not know. So the land was desolated behind them [fn]so that no one went back and forth, since they made the pleasant land desolate H8047.”
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