Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H8077 - šᵊmāmâ

Choose a new font size and typeface
שְׁמָמָה
Transliteration
šᵊmāmâ
Pronunciation
shem-aw-maw'
Listen
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2409b,2409c

Strong’s Definitions

שְׁמָמָה shᵉmâmâh, shem-aw-maw'; or שִׁמָמָה shimâmâh; feminine of H8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment:—(laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's H8077 in the following manner: desolate (40x), desolation (14x), waste (1x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's H8077 in the following manner: desolate (40x), desolation (14x), waste (1x), miscellaneous (3x).

  1. devastation, waste, desolation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שְׁמָמָה shᵉmâmâh, shem-aw-maw'; or שִׁמָמָה shimâmâh; feminine of H8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment:—(laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
STRONGS H8077: Abbreviations
שְׁמָמָה 55 noun feminine a devastation, waste; — absolute שׁ׳ Exodus 23:29 +; plural construct שִׁמְמוֺת Jeremiah 51:26 +; — waste, usually of land, city, house, etc., Exodus 23:29 (E), Isaiah 1:7 (probably strike out, with words following StuJP Th. 1877, 714 FBJBL (1890), 84), Leviticus 26:33 (H), Jeremiah 4:27 + 14 times Jeremiah (|| מֵאֵין אָדָם ונו׳ Jeremiah 32:43, מֵאֵין ישֵׁב Jeremiah 34:22), Ezekiel 6:14 + 18 times Ezekiel (Ezekiel 35:7a read שְׁמָמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה for MT וּשְׁמָמָה שִֽׁמְמָה, so Hi Co Toy Krae and others) +; of prince, יִלְבַּשׁ שׁ׳ Ezekiel 7:27; of idols Micah 1:7; כּוֺם שַׁמָּה ושׁ׳ Ezekiel 23:33. — Ezekiel 35:12 see שׁמם Qal.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

23:29; 23:29

Leviticus

26:33

Isaiah

1:7

Jeremiah

4:27; 32:43; 34:22; 51:26

Ezekiel

6:14; 7:27; 23:33; 35:7; 35:12

Micah

1:7

H8077

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8077 matches the Hebrew שְׁמָמָה (šᵊmāmâ),
which occurs 58 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 23:29–Zep 1:13)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:4 - You shall no more be termed Forsaken,[fn]
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[fn]
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,[fn]
and your land Married;[fn]
for the LORD delights in you,
and your land shall be married.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - For thus says the LORD, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Be warned, O Jerusalem,
lest I turn from you in disgust,
lest I make you a desolation,
an uninhabited land.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
a lair of jackals,
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
a great commotion out of the north country
to make the cities of Judah a desolation,
a lair of jackals.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 - Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
they have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
a desolate wilderness.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 - They have made it a desolation;
desolate, it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
but no man lays it to heart.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 - Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
declares the LORD,
when I will cause the battle cry to be heard
against Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate mound,
and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
says the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals,
an everlasting waste;
no man shall dwell there;
no man shall sojourn in her.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited
but shall be an utter desolation;
everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled,
and hiss because of all her wounds.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 - No stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be a perpetual waste,
declares the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:62

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - and say, ‘O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah.[fn] Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:15 - “If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow.
A cup of horror and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. “Because you[fn] said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
and when the land is desolate of all that fills it,
when I strike down all who dwell in it,
then they will know that I am the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:14 - Thus says the Lord GOD: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:34 - And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like the garden of Eden before them,
but behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - “I will remove the northerner far from you,
and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[fn] into the eastern sea,
and his rear guard[fn] into the western sea;
the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
for he has done great things.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:19 - “Egypt shall become a desolation
and Edom a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:13 - But the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their deeds.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:13 - Their goods shall be plundered,
and their houses laid waste.
Though they build houses,
they shall not inhabit them;
though they plant vineyards,
they shall not drink wine from them.”

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/2 (Exo 23:29–Zep 1:13) Exo 23:29–Zep 1:13

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Zep 2:4–Mal 1:3

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.