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.

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Every occurrence

1. 1 Samuel 5:6 וַיְשִׁמֵּ֑ם vay.shi.Mem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

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