שָׁמֵם

sha.mem · be desolate: destroyed

Hebrew · Strong's H8074 · Verb · Sounds like: shaw-mame' · 86 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • be desolate: destroyed H8074G 57
  • be desolate: appalled H8074H · a Meaning of 29

Strong's dictionary

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[שָׁמֵם] vb. be desolated, appalled
Qal
1. be desolated
2. be appalled, awestruck
Niph.
1. be desolated
2. be appalled
Pō‛.
1. I sat appalled
2. transit. appalling, causing horror
Hiph.
1. devastate, ravage
2.
a. appal
b. inwardly trans., shewing horror
Hoph. all the days of (its) being desolate
Hithpō‛.
1. be appalled, astounded
2. cause oneself desolation, ruin

Every occurrence

  1. Ezekiel 36:35 הַנְּשַׁמָּ֔ה ha.ne.sha.Mah · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

  2. Ezekiel 36:35 וְהַֽנְשַׁמּ֥וֹת ve.han.sha.Mot · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

  3. Ezekiel 36:36 הַנְּשַׁמָּ֑ה ha.ne.sha.Mah · An -ing word: receiving the action

    Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Jehovah, have builded the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and I will do it.

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