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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - “because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - “Therefore the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to jeering, as you see 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 your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, so that He gave them up to desolation, as you see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - Come, behold the works of the LORD,
Who has made desolations in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - In my hearing the LORD of hosts said,
“Truly, many houses shall be desolate,
Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Behold, the day of the LORD comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy its sinners from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - In the city desolation is left,
And the gate is stricken with destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions roared at him, and growled;
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - The lion has come up from his thicket,
And the destroyer of nations is on his way.
He has gone forth from his place
To make your land desolate.
Your cities will be laid waste,
Without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - “An astonishing and horrible thing
Has been committed in the land:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - ‘And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve 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, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - He has left His lair like the lion;
For their land is desolate
Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor,
And because of His fierce anger.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth—to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘As My anger and My fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - “So the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - O you daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself to go into captivity!
For Noph[fn] shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - “Give wings to Moab,
That she may flee and get away;
For her cities shall be desolate,
Without any to dwell in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - “Edom also shall be an astonishment;
Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For out of the north a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,
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 - Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - “Oh, how Sheshach[fn] is taken!
Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.

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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 horror and desolation,
The cup of your sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - He has laid waste My vine,
And ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - For the statutes of Omri are kept;
All the works of Ahab’s house are done;
And you walk in their counsels,
That I may make you a desolation,
And your inhabitants a hissing.
Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the rejoicing city
That dwelt securely,
That said in her heart,
“I am it, and there is none besides me.”
How has she become a desolation,
A place for beasts to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
Shall hiss and shake his fist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - “But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
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