H8077: שְׁמָמָה
shᵉmâmâh · pronounced shem-aw-maw' · “devastation”
Definition
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
KJV translates it as: (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Word origin: or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of H8076 (שָׁמֵם);
Extended definition
Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8077 is translated
- a desolation ×31
- desolation ×10
- a waste ×8
- is a desolation ×3
- desolations of ×3
- desolate ×1
- wastes of ×1
Bible verses with H8077 (shᵉmâmâh)
Shᵉmâmâh appears in 53 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 23:29
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
- Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Joshua 8:28
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
- Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 6:11
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
- Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
- Isaiah 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi–bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
- Isaiah 64:10
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- Jeremiah 4:27
For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
- Jeremiah 6:8
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
- Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 10:22
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
- Jeremiah 12:10
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- Jeremiah 25:12
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 32:43
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 44:6
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
- Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 49:33
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
- Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
- Jeremiah 51:26
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 51:62
Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
- 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 7:27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
All 53 references
- Ezekiel 12:20
- Ezekiel 14:15
- Ezekiel 14:16
- Ezekiel 15:8
- Ezekiel 23:33
- Ezekiel 29:9
- Ezekiel 29:10
- Ezekiel 29:12
- Ezekiel 32:15
- Ezekiel 33:28
- Ezekiel 33:29
- Ezekiel 35:3
- Ezekiel 35:4
- Ezekiel 35:7
- Ezekiel 35:9
- Ezekiel 35:14
- Ezekiel 35:15
- Ezekiel 36:34
- Joel 2:3
- Joel 2:20
- Joel 3:19
- Micah 1:7
- Micah 7:13
- Zephaniah 1:13
- Zephaniah 2:4
- Zephaniah 2:9
- Zephaniah 2:13
- Malachi 1:3