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. Deuteronomy 28:37 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Psalms 46:8 שַׁמּ֣וֹת sha.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Come, behold the works of Jehovah, What desolations he hath made in the earth.

  6. Psalms 73:19 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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

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

  10. Jeremiah 2:15 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  11. Jeremiah 4:7 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  12. Jeremiah 5:30 שַׁמָּה֙ sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

  13. Jeremiah 8:21 שַׁמָּ֖ה sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

  14. Jeremiah 18:16 לְשַׁמָּ֖ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

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

  15. Jeremiah 19:8 לְשַׁמָּ֖ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    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.

  16. Jeremiah 25:9 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

  17. Jeremiah 25:11 לְשַׁמָּ֑ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

  18. Jeremiah 25:18 לְשַׁמָּ֛ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

  19. Jeremiah 25:38 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of his fierce anger.

  20. Jeremiah 29:18 וּלְשַׁמָּה֙ u.le.sha.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;

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