H4923: מְשַׁמָּה
mᵉshammâh · pronounced mesh-am-maw' · “devastation”
Definition
a waste or amazement
KJV translates it as: astonishment, desolate.
Word origin: from H8074 (שָׁמֵם);
Extended definition
1a) devastation, waste
1b) horror
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4923 is translated
- a waste ×4
- wastes ×2
- a horror ×1
Bible verses with H4923 (mᵉshammâh)
Mᵉshammâh appears in 7 verses.
- Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
- Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
- Ezekiel 5:15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 6:14
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 33:28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
- Ezekiel 33:29
Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
- Ezekiel 35:3
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.