שָׁמֵם

sha.mem · be desolate: destroyed

Hebrew · Strong's H8074 · Verb · Sounds like: shaw-mame' · 86 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[שָׁמֵם] vb. be desolated, appalled
Qal
1. be desolated
2. be appalled, awestruck
Niph.
1. be desolated
2. be appalled
Pō‛.
1. I sat appalled
2. transit. appalling, causing horror
Hiph.
1. devastate, ravage
2.
a. appal
b. inwardly trans., shewing horror
Hoph. all the days of (its) being desolate
Hithpō‛.
1. be appalled, astounded
2. cause oneself desolation, ruin

Every occurrence

  1. Joel 1:17 נָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ na.Sha.mu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

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