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. Ezra 9:3 מְשׁוֹמֵֽם׃ me.sho.Mem · An -ing word: strong action

   And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

2. Ezra 9:4 מְשׁוֹמֵ֔ם me.sho.Mem · An -ing word: strong action

   Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.

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