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Lexicon :: Strong's H8074 - šāmēm

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שָׁמֵם
Transliteration
šāmēm
Pronunciation
shaw-mame'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2409

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמֵם shâmêm, shaw-mame'; a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense):—make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x

The KJV translates Strong's H8074 in the following manner: desolate (49x), astonished (20x), desolation (7x), waste (5x), destroy (3x), wondered (2x), amazed (1x), astonishment (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x
The KJV translates Strong's H8074 in the following manner: desolate (49x), astonished (20x), desolation (7x), waste (5x), destroy (3x), wondered (2x), amazed (1x), astonishment (1x), miscellaneous (4x).
  1. to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled

      2. to be appalled, be awestruck

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be desolated, be made desolate

      2. to be appalled

    3. (Polel)

      1. to be stunned

      2. appalling, causing horror (participle)

        1. horror-causer, appaller (subst)

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to devastate, ravage, make desolated

      2. to appal, show horror

    5. (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated

    6. (Hithpolel)

      1. to cause to be desolate

      2. to be appalled, be astounded

      3. to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself ruin

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמֵם shâmêm, shaw-mame'; a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense):—make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
STRONGS H8074: Abbreviations
† [שָׁמֵם] verb be desoleted, appalled (connection of meanings not clear) (Late Hebrew id.; Jewish-Aramaic שְׁמַם Ithp. be dazed); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person feminine singular שָׁמֵ֑מָה Ezekiel 35:15, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשֹּׁם; 1 Kings 9:8 +, 3rd person masculine plural יָשֹּׁ֫מּוּ Job 17:8; Psalm 40:16, etc.; Imperative masculine plural שֹׁ֫מוּ Jeremiah 2:19; Infinitive construct (?) metaplastic שַׁמוֺת Ezekiel 36:3 (Ges§ 67r, but see infra); — תֵּשַׁם, etc. (see [יָשַׁם]) are placed here by most; Ezekiel 6:6 reads תִּישָׁ֑מְנָה, see Ges § 67 p dd; — Participle שׁוֺמֵם Lamentations 3:11 (see also Pō`); feminine שֹׁמֵמָ֔ה (Ges§ 84a s) 2 Samuel 13:20 +; plural שׁוֺמֵמִין Lamentations 1:14, etc.; —
1. be desolated, of Tamar 2 Samuel 13:20 (i.e. deflowered, or deserted; others appalled), of person elsewhere late Lamentations 1:16; נְתָנַנִי שֹׁמֵמָה Lamentations 1:13, שָׂמַ֫נִי שׁ׳ Lamentations 3:11; participle as feminine noun בְּנֵי שׁוֺמֵמָה Isaiah 54:1 (opposed to בְּעוּלָה) [Daniel 8:13Pō`.]; usually of land, etc. (sometimes=deserted), Isaiah 49:8; Ezekiel 33:28 (מֵאֵין עוֺבֵר), Ezekiel 35:12 (read שָֽׁמְמוּ Qr Co Toy Krae; >Kt שׁממה), Ezekiel 35:15; הֶחְָרָבוֺת הַשֹּׁמִמוֺת Ezekiel 36:4 (|| הֶעָרִים הַנֱּעֶזָבוֺת שַׁמּוֺת) Ezekiel 36:3 is probably corrupt, Co שְׁאָט as Ezekiel 36:5, Hi-Sm from שׁמה = נשׁם, Toy reads נָשֹׁם, Krae נָשֹׁם; — participle feminine plural as noun = desolate places Isaiah 49:19; Isaiah 61:4 (both || חֳרָבוֺת), Isaiah 61:4 (compare שְׁמָמָה Isaiah 62:4); = desolations Daniel 9:18, 26.
2. be appalled, awestruck, usually at (עַל) judgments on others, Leviticus 26:32 (H), Jeremiah 2:12 (see II. [חָרֵב]), Ezekiel 26:16; Ezekiel 27:35; Ezekiel 28:19; Isaiah 52:14; Job 17:8, compare 1 Kings 9:8 2 Chronicles 7:12; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 49:17; Jeremiah 50:13; on oneself Psalm 40:16 (עַלעֵֿקֶב). — Isaiah 42:14 see [נשׁם].
Niph. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular נָשַׁ֫מָּה Jeremiah 12:11 +, 3rd person plural נָשַׁ֫נּוּ Zephaniah 3:6 +; Participle feminine נְשַׁמָּה Ezekiel 36:34 +, etc.; — = Qal:
1. be desolated, of roads Leviticus 26:22 (H), Isaiah 33:8, bamoth Amos 7:9 (|| יֶחֱרָ֑בוּ), altars Ezekiel 6:4; compare Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 32:15; Zephaniah 3:6; Zechariah 7:14; Joel 1:17; Psalm 69:26; of lands Ezekiel 29:12; Ezekiel 30:7; Ezekiel 36:34, 35, cities Isaiah 54:3 (opposed to יוֺשִׁיבוּ), compare Ezekiel 36:35; Amos 9:14; Jeremiah 33:10; הַנְּשַׁמָּה Ezekiel 36:36 the desolated (that is, land, in figure).
2. be appalled Jeremiah 4:9; Lamentations 4:5; Ezekiel 4:17; Ezekiel 30:7, with עַל of thing Job 18:20.
Pō`. Participle
1. וֵָֽֽֽאשְׁבָה מְשׁוֺמֵם Ezra 9:3I sat appalled, compare Ezra 9:4
2. transitive appalling, causing horror (DrDan 150 f.): (הַ)שִּׁקּוּץ מְשֹׁמֵם Daniel 11:31, + perhaps Daniel 9:27a (see שִׁקּוּץ); so also שֹׁמֵם שִׁוּ׳ Daniel 12:11 (on שׁ׳ see Ges§ 52s), שֹׁמֵם הַפֶּשַׁע Daniel 8:13 the crime causing horror, and שׁ׳ as noun horror-causer, appaller, Daniel 9:27b.
Hiph. Perfect 2nd person masculine singular הֲשִׁמּ֫וֺתָ Job 16:7, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשּׁים (Ges§ 67y) Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45, 3rd person masculine plural suffix וַיְשִׁמֵּם 1 Samuel 5:6, 1st person plural נַשִּׁים Numbers 21:30, etc.; Imperative masculine plural הָשַׁמּוּ (Ges§ 67v) Job 21:5; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁמֵם Micah 6:13; Participle מַשְׁמִים Ezekiel 3:15; —
1. devastate, ravage, accusative of person 1 Samuel 5:6; Ezekiel 20:26; Hosea 2:14 (figurative of vine), Job 16:7; accusative of location Leviticus 26:31, 32 (H) Jeremiah 10:25; Ezekiel 30:12, 14; Psalm 79:7, so (accusative omitted) Numbers 21:30 (poem in J E), Micah 6:13; — Ezekiel 14:8 see שִׂים Hiph.
2.
a. appal, accusative of person, with עַל at, Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45; Ezekiel 32:10.
b. inwardly transitive, וָאֵשֵׁב מִשׁ׳ Ezekiel 3:15 shewing horror, Job 21:5 (Bu Niph. הִשַּׁמוּ).
Hoph. Infinitive construct כָּליְֿמֵי הָשַּׁמָּה (that is הָאָרֶץ) Leviticus 26:34 (H) all the days of (its) being desolate, so Leviticus 26:35; 2 Chronicles 36:21; Aramaizing, בָּהְשַׁמָּה (Ges§ 67y) Leviticus 26:43.
Hithpō`. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁתּוֺמֵם Psalm 143:4, etc.; —
1. be appalled, astounded, כִּי that, because, Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5; עַל of thing Daniel 8:27; עבּתוֺכִי יִשְׁתּ׳ Psalm 143:4 (compare 1st person plural נשתומם Ecclus. 43:24).
2. cause oneself desolation, ruin, Ecclesiastes 7:16.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8075.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:22; 26:31; 26:32; 26:32; 26:34; 26:35; 26:43

Numbers

21:30; 21:30

1 Samuel

5:6; 5:6

2 Samuel

13:20; 13:20

1 Kings

9:8; 9:8

2 Chronicles

7:12; 36:21

Ezra

9:3; 9:4

Job

16:7; 16:7; 17:8; 17:8; 18:20; 21:5; 21:5

Psalms

40:16; 40:16; 69:26; 79:7; 143:4; 143:4

Ecclesiastes

7:16

Isaiah

33:8; 42:14; 49:8; 49:19; 52:14; 54:1; 54:3; 59:16; 61:4; 61:4; 62:4; 63:5

Jeremiah

2:12; 2:19; 4:9; 10:25; 12:11; 18:16; 19:8; 33:10; 49:17; 49:20; 49:20; 50:13; 50:45; 50:45

Lamentations

1:13; 1:14; 1:16; 3:11; 3:11; 4:5

Ezekiel

3:15; 3:15; 4:17; 6:4; 6:6; 14:8; 20:26; 25:3; 26:16; 27:35; 28:19; 29:12; 30:7; 30:7; 30:12; 30:14; 32:10; 32:15; 33:28; 35:12; 35:15; 35:15; 36:3; 36:3; 36:4; 36:5; 36:34; 36:34; 36:35; 36:35; 36:36

Daniel

8:13; 8:13; 8:27; 9:18; 9:26; 9:27; 9:27; 11:31; 12:11

Hosea

2:14

Joel

1:17

Amos

7:9; 9:14

Micah

6:13; 6:13

Zephaniah

3:6; 3:6

Zechariah

7:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8074 matches the Hebrew שָׁמֵם (šāmēm),
which occurs 86 times in 80 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 26:22–Eze 14:8)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - ‘I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that your roads become H8074 deserted H8074.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘I will turn your cities into ruins as well and make H8074 your sanctuaries desolate H8074, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - ‘And I will make H8074 the land desolate H8074 so that your enemies who settle in it will be H8074 appalled H8074 at it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 -

‘Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation H8074, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:35 - ‘All the days of its desolation H8074 it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - ‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will restore its Sabbaths while it is made H8074 desolate H8074 without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their wrongdoing, [fn]because they rejected My ordinances and their soul loathed My statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:30 -

“But we have shot them down with arrows,

Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon,

Then we have laid H8074 waste H8074 as far as Nophah,

Which reaches to Medeba.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:6 -

Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the Ashdodites, and He made them feel H8074 devastated H8074 and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:8 - “And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be H8074 appalled H8074 and [fn]hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and this house?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:21 - “As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be H8074 astonished H8074 and say, ‘Why has the LORD done these things to this land and to this house?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation H8074 it kept the Sabbath [fn]until seventy years were complete.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:3 - When I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled out some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down [fn]appalled H8074.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4 - Then everyone who was frightened by the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat [fn]appalled H8074 until the evening offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 -

“But now He has exhausted me;

You have laid H8074 waste H8074 all my group of loved ones.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:8 -

“The upright will be H8074 appalled H8074 at this,

And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:20 -

“Those in the west are H8074 appalled H8074 at his [fn]fate,

And those in the east are seized with horror.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:5 -

“Look at me, and be H8074 astonished H8074,

And put your hand over your mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:15 -

May those be H8074 [fn]appalled H8074 because of their shame

Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 -

May their [fn]camp be H8074 desolated H8074;

May there be none living in their tents.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 -

For they have devoured Jacob

And laid H8074 waste H8074 his [fn]settlement.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:4 -

Therefore my spirit [fn]feels weak within me;

My heart is H8074 [fn]appalled H8074 within me.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:16 - Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin H8074 yourself?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 -

The highways are H8074 desolate H8074, [fn]the traveler has ceased,

He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities,

He has no regard for mankind.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 -

This is what the LORD says:

“At a favorable time I answered You,

And on a day of salvation I helped You;

And I will watch over You and make You a covenant of the people,

To [fn]restore the land, to give as inheritances the deserted H8074 hereditary lands;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 -

“For your ruins and deserted H8074 places and your destroyed land

Now you will certainly be too cramped for the inhabitants,

And those who swallowed you will be far away.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:14 -

Just as many were H8074 appalled H8074 at you, My people,

So His appearance was marred beyond that of a man,

And His form beyond the sons of mankind.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 -

“Shout for joy, infertile one, you who have not given birth to any child;

Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor;

For the sons of the desolate H8074 one will be more numerous

Than the sons of the married woman,” says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left.

And your [fn]descendants will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate H8074 cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:16 -

And He saw that there was no one,

And was amazed H8074 that there was not one to intercede;

Then His own arm brought salvation to Him,

And His righteousness upheld Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,

They will raise up the former devastations H8074;

And they will repair the ruined cities,

The desolations H8074 of many generations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:5 -

“I looked, but there was no one to help,

And I was astonished H8074 and there was no one to uphold;

So My own arm brought salvation to Me,

And My wrath upheld Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:12 -

“Be H8074 appalled H8074 at this, you heavens,

And shudder, be very desolate,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:9 -

“And it shall come about on that day,” declares the LORD, “that the heart of the king and the hearts of the leaders will fail; and the priests will tremble H8074, and the prophets will be astonished.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 -

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,

And on the families who do not call upon Your name;

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him,

And have laid H8074 waste H8074 his [fn]settlement.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 -

[fn]It has been made a desolation;

Desolate, it mourns [fn]before Me;

The whole land has been made H8074 desolate H8074,

Because no one takes it to heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 -

To make their land a desolation,

An object of perpetual hissing;

Everyone who passes by it will be astonished H8074

And shake his head.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will also turn this city into an object of horror and [fn]hissing; everyone who passes by it will be H8074 appalled H8074 and [fn]hiss because of all its [fn]disasters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 -

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without animal,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted H8074, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 -

“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be H8074 appalled H8074 and will [fn]hiss at all its wounds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 -

Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has in mind against the inhabitants of Teman: they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; He will certainly make H8074 their pasture desolate H8074 because of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 -

“Because of the wrath of the LORD she will not be inhabited,

But she will be completely desolate;

Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified H8074

And will hiss because of all her wounds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has in mind against the land of the Chaldeans: they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; He will certainly make H8074 their pasture desolate H8074 because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 -

The roads [fn]of Zion are in mourning

Because no one comes to an appointed feast.

All her gates are deserted H8074;

Her priests groan,

Her virgins are worried,

And as for Zion herself, it is bitter for her.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 -

“For these things I weep;

[fn]My eyes run down with water;

Because far from me is a comforter,

One to restore my soul.

My children are desolate H8074

Because the enemy has prevailed.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 -

Those who used to eat delicacies

Are made to tremble H8074 in the streets;

Those who were raised in crimson clothing

Embrace garbage heaps.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 -

Because of Mount Zion which lies H8074 desolate H8074,

Jackals prowl in it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:15 - Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there for seven days where they were living, causing H8074 consternation H8074 among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17 - because bread and water will be scarce; and they will tremble H8074 with one another and waste away in their guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - “So your altars will become H8074 deserted H8074 and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - “I will set My face against that person and make him a sign and [fn]a proverb, and I will eliminate him from among My people. So you will know that I am the LORD.

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