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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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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)

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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 would multiply and threaten you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, 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 the town of Ai,[fn] and it became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country lies in ruins,
and your towns are burned.
Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes
and destroy everything they see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “Lord, how long will this go on?”
And he replied,
“Until their towns are empty,
their houses are deserted,
and the whole country is a wasteland;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - Their largest cities will be like a deserted forest,
like the land the Hivites and Amorites abandoned[fn]
when the Israelites came here so long ago.
It will be utterly desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:4 - Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City”[fn]
or “The Desolate Land.”[fn]
Your new name will be “The City of God’s Delight”[fn]
and “The Bride of God,”[fn]
for the LORD delights in you
and will claim you as his bride.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your holy cities are destroyed.
Zion is a wilderness;
yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

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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,
but I will not destroy it completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Listen to this warning, Jerusalem,
or I will turn from you in disgust.
Listen, or I will turn you into a heap of ruins,
a land where no one lives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - “I will make Jerusalem into a heap of ruins,” says the LORD.
“It will be a place haunted by jackals.
The towns of Judah will be ghost towns,
with no one living in them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! Hear the terrifying roar of great armies
as they roll down from the north.
The towns of Judah will be destroyed
and become a haunt for jackals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 - “Many rulers have ravaged my vineyard,
trampling down the vines
and turning all its beauty into a barren wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 - They have made it an empty wasteland;
I hear its mournful cry.
The whole land is desolate,
and no one even cares.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the LORD. “I will make the country of the Babylonians[fn] a wasteland forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - Fields will again be bought and sold in this land about which you now say, ‘It has been ravaged by the Babylonians, a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - I will call the Babylonian armies back again. They will fight against this city and will capture it and burn it down. I will see to it that all the towns of Judah are destroyed, with no one living there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and they are still a desolate ruin today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 - In the days to come,” says the LORD,
“I will sound the battle cry against your city of Rabbah.
It will become a desolate heap of ruins,
and the neighboring towns will be burned.
Then Israel will take back the land
you took from her,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - “Hazor will be inhabited by jackals,
and it will be desolate forever.
No one will live there;
no one will inhabit it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the LORD’s anger,
Babylon will become a deserted wasteland.
All who pass by will be horrified
and will gasp at the destruction they see there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 - You will be desolate forever.
Even your stones will never again be used for building.
You will be completely wiped out,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:62

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - Then say, ‘LORD, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah[fn] in the north. 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 and the prince will stand helpless,
weeping in despair,
and the people’s hands
will tremble with fear.
I will bring on them
the evil they have done to others,
and they will receive the punishment
they so richly deserve.
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 cities will be destroyed and the farmland made 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 suppose I were to send wild animals to invade the country, kill the people, and make the land too desolate and dangerous to pass through.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, even if those three men were there, they wouldn’t be able to save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land desolate because my people have been unfaithful to me. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - Drunkenness and anguish will fill you,
for your cup is filled to the brim with distress and desolation,
the same cup your sister Samaria drank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.
“Because you said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - I am now the enemy of both you and your river. I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate wasteland, from Migdol to Aswan, as far south as the border of Ethiopia.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - And when I destroy Egypt
and strip you of everything you own
and strike down all your people,
then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride. Her arrogant power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate that no one will even travel through them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - When I have completely destroyed the land because of their detestable sins, then they will know that I am the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“I am your enemy, O Mount Seir,
and I will raise my fist against you
to destroy you completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will demolish your cities
and make you 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 utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. 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: The whole world will rejoice when I make you desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - You rejoiced at the desolation of Israel’s territory. Now I will rejoice at yours! You will be wiped out, you people of Mount Seir and all who live in Edom! Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:34 - The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - “O my God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your city—the city that bears your name—lies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Fire burns in front of them,
and flames follow after them.
Ahead of them the land lies
as beautiful as the Garden of Eden.
Behind them is nothing but desolation;
not one thing escapes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - I will drive away these armies from the north.
I will send them into the parched wastelands.
Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea,
and those at the rear into the Mediterranean.[fn]
The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.”
Surely the LORD has done great things!

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:19 - But Egypt will become a wasteland
and Edom will become a wilderness,
because they attacked the people of Judah
and killed innocent people in their land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her carved images will be smashed.
All her sacred treasures will be burned.
These things were bought with the money
earned by her prostitution,
and they will now be carried away
to pay prostitutes elsewhere.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:13 - But the land[fn] will become empty and desolate
because of the wickedness of those who live there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:13 - So their property will be plundered,
their homes will be ransacked.
They will build new homes
but never live in them.
They will plant vineyards
but never drink wine from them.

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