H8074: שָׁמֵם
shâmêm · pronounced shaw-mame' · “be desolate: destroyed”
Definition
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV translates it as: 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.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1) to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled
1a2) to be appalled, be awestruck
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be desolated, be made desolate
1b2) to be appalled
1c) (Polel)
1c1) to be stunned
1c2) appalling, causing horror (participle)
1c2a) horror-causer, appaller (subst)
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to devastate, ravage, make desolated
1d2) to appal, show horror
1e) (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated
1f) (Hithpolel)
1f1) to cause to be desolate
1f2) to be appalled, be astounded
1f3) to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself ruin
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8074 is translated
- he will be appalled ×6
- i will devastate ×5
- desolated ×5
- they will be appalled ×4
- they will be desolate ×3
- it ×3
- appalled ×3
- made desolate ×3
- desolate ×3
- they are desolate ×3
- desolating ×3
- them ×2
Bible verses with H8074 (shâmêm)
Shâmêm appears in 81 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Leviticus 26:22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
- Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- Leviticus 26:32
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:34
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
- Leviticus 26:43
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Numbers 21:30
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
- 1 Samuel 5:6
But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
- 1 Kings 9:8
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
- 2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
- Ezra 9:3
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
- Ezra 9:4
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
- Job 16:7
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
- Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
- Job 18:20
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
- Job 21:5
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Psalms 40:15
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
- Psalms 69:25
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
- Psalms 79:7
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
- Psalms 143:4
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
- Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- Isaiah 49:8
Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
- Isaiah 49:19
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
All 81 references
- Isaiah 52:14
- Isaiah 54:1
- Isaiah 54:3
- Isaiah 59:16
- Isaiah 61:4
- Isaiah 63:5
- Jeremiah 2:12
- Jeremiah 4:9
- Jeremiah 10:25
- Jeremiah 12:11
- Jeremiah 18:16
- Jeremiah 19:8
- Jeremiah 33:10
- Jeremiah 49:17
- Jeremiah 49:20
- Jeremiah 50:13
- Jeremiah 50:45
- Lamentations 1:4
- Lamentations 1:16
- Lamentations 4:5
- Lamentations 5:18
- Ezekiel 3:15
- Ezekiel 4:17
- Ezekiel 6:4
- Ezekiel 20:26
- Ezekiel 25:3
- Ezekiel 26:16
- Ezekiel 27:35
- Ezekiel 28:19
- Ezekiel 29:12
- Ezekiel 30:7
- Ezekiel 30:12
- Ezekiel 30:14
- Ezekiel 32:10
- Ezekiel 32:15
- Ezekiel 33:28
- Ezekiel 35:12
- Ezekiel 35:15
- Ezekiel 36:3
- Ezekiel 36:34
- Ezekiel 36:35
- Ezekiel 36:36
- Daniel 8:13
- Daniel 8:27
- Daniel 9:18
- Daniel 9:26
- Daniel 9:27
- Daniel 11:31
- Daniel 12:11
- Hosea 2:12
- Joel 1:17
- Amos 7:9
- Amos 9:14
- Micah 6:13
- Zephaniah 3:6
- Zechariah 7:14
Words derived from H8074
מְשַׁמָּה H4923
mᵉshammâh — devastation
שַׁמָּא H8037
Shammâʼ — Shammah
שַׁמָּה H8047
shammâh — horror: destroyed
שַׁמּוּעַ H8051
Shammûwaʻ — Shammua
שְׁמוּעָה H8052
shᵉmûwʻâh — tidings
שְׁמַם H8075
shᵉmam — be appalled
שָׁמֵם H8076
shâmêm — devastated
שִׁמָּמוֹן H8078
shimmâmôwn — horror
שְׂמָמִית H8079
sᵉmâmîyth — lizard