Strong's Hebrew Concordance

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

1) devastation, horror
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.