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Lexicon :: Strong's H8077 - šᵊmāmâ

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שְׁמָמָה
Transliteration
šᵊmāmâ
Pronunciation
shem-aw-maw'
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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.
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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)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - So Joshua burned Ai[fn] and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:4 - No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah,[fn] and your land Beulah[fn]; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - This is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! The report is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north! It will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 - Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 - It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,[fn] for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - I am going to give the order, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 - But the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it will become a mound of ruins, and its surrounding villages will be set on fire. Then Israel will drive out those who drove her out,”

says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever. No one will live there; no people will dwell in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the LORD’s anger she will not be inhabited but will be completely desolate. All who pass Babylon will be appalled; they will scoff because of all her wounds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 - No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:62

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - Then say, ‘LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah[fn]—wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. “ ‘Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:15 - “Or if I send wild beasts through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - I will make the land desolate because they have been unfaithful, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. “ ‘Because you said, “The Nile is mine; I made it,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.

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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 desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:14 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - Because you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:34 - The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - Give ear, our God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste— nothing escapes them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - “I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things!

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:19 - But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:13 - The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:13 - Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. Though they build houses, they will not live in them; though they plant vineyards, they will not drink the wine.”

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