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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 Box Deu 28:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:37 - You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - 'You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,' says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - Don't be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - Come! Witness the exploits of the LORD, who brings devastation to the earth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - The LORD who commands armies told me this: "Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Look, the LORD's day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - "Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - The LORD is like a lion who has left his lair. So their lands will certainly be laid waste by the warfare of the oppressive nation and by the fierce anger of the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - I will chase after them with war, starvation, and disease. I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to them. I will make them examples of those who are cursed, objects of horror, hissing scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I exile them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. You will never see this place again.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - Pack your bags for exile, you inhabitants of poor dear Egypt. For Memphis will be laid waste. It will lie in ruins and be uninhabited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - Set up a gravestone for Moab, for it will certainly be laid in ruins! Its cities will be laid waste and become uninhabited."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I solemnly swear," says the LORD, "that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - "Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For a nation from the north will attack Babylon. It will lay her land waste. People and animals will flee out of it. No one will inhabit it.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that 'hammer' has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the LORD will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - "See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - They have destroyed our vines; they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - You implement the regulations of Omri, and all the practices of Ahab's dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city's inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is how the once-proud city will end up - the city that was so secure. She thought to herself, "I am unique! No one can compare to me!" What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - 'Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.' Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste."
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