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.

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

Every occurrence

  1. Isaiah 5:9 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  2. Isaiah 13:9 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

  3. Isaiah 24:12 שַׁמָּ֑ה sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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