שַׁמָּה

sham.mah · horror: destroyed

Hebrew · Strong's H8047 · Noun · Sounds like: sham-maw' · 39 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • horror: destroyed H8047G 22
  • horror: appalled H8047H · a Meaning of 17

Strong's dictionary

from שָׁמֵם; ruin; by implication, consternation; astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שַׁמָּה n.f. waste, appalment

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:8 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  2. 2 Chronicles 30:7 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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