שָׁמֵם

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)

Every occurrence

1. Jeremiah 2:12 שֹׁ֥מּוּ Sho.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

   Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.

2. Jeremiah 4:9 וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ ve.na.Sha.mu · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by them

   And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

3. Jeremiah 10:25 הֵשַֽׁמּוּ׃ פ he.Sha.mu · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

   Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

4. Jeremiah 12:11 נָשַׁ֙מָּה֙ na.Sha.mah · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

5. Jeremiah 18:16 יִשֹּׁ֖ם yi.Shom · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

6. Jeremiah 19:8 יִשֹּׁ֥ם yi.Shom · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

7. Jeremiah 33:10 הַֽנְשַׁמּ֗וֹת han.sha.Mot · An -ing word: receiving the action

   Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

8. Jeremiah 49:17 יִשֹּׁ֥ם yi.Shom · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

9. Jeremiah 49:20 יַשִּׁ֛ים ya.Shim · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

10. Jeremiah 50:13 יִשֹּׁ֥ם yi.Shom · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

11. Jeremiah 50:45 יַשִּׁ֛ים ya.Shim · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

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