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Lexicon :: Strong's H8047 - šammâ

Aa
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 BoxDeu 28:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:37 - And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame; and you will never see this place again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
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