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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 - and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because thy heart is tender, and thou art humbled because of Jehovah, in thy hearing that which I have spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, to be for a desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me -- I also have heard -- the affirmation of Jehovah --

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - and the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He giveth them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as ye are seeing with your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - He hath forsaken, as a young lion, His covert, Surely their land hath become a desolation, Because of the oppressing fierceness, And because of the fierceness of His anger!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - for thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: As poured out hath been Mine anger and My fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so poured out is My fury upon you in your entering Egypt, and ye have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and ye do not see any more this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - and I have taken the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they have all been consumed in the land of Egypt; they fall by sword, by famine they are consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine they die, and they have been for an execration, for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - And Jehovah is not able any more to accept you, because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations that ye have done, and your land is for a waste, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, without inhabitant, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - Give wings to Moab, for she utterly goeth out, And her cities are for a desolation, Without an inhabitant in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For, by Myself, I have sworn, An affirmation of Jehovah, That for a desolation, for a reproach, For a waste, and for a reviling -- is Bozrah, And all her cities are for wastes age-during.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - And Edom hath been for a desolation, Every passer by her is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For come up against her hath a nation from the north, It maketh her land become a desolation, And there is not an inhabitant in it. From man even unto beast, They have moved, they have gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - And shake doth the land, and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - It hath made my vine become a desolation, And my fig-tree become a chip, It hath made it thoroughly bare, and hath cast down, Made white have been its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, 'I am, and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!
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