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 Kings 22:19 לְשַׁמָּה֙ le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

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