Strong H8047H8047Gשַׁמָּה

horror: destroyed

One of the 2 senses of Strong H8047

Transliteration
shammâh
Pronunciation
sham-maw'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

: destroyed/waste
1) waste, horror, appalment
1a) a waste (of land, city, etc)
1b) appalment, horror
Also means: sham.mah (שַׁמָּה ": appalled" H8047H)

General definition

From H8074; ruin; by implication consternation: - {astonishment} desolate ({-ion}) {waste} wonderful thing.

In the Bible

Strong H8047G appears in 22 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • desolate8
  • desolation5
  • astonishment3
  • waste3
  • become2
  • desolations1

First verses

  1. 2 Kings 22:19
    Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
  2. 2 Chronicles 30:7
    And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
  3. Psalms 46:8
    Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
  4. Psalms 73:19
    How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
  5. Isaiah 5:9
    In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
  6. Isaiah 13:9
    Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
  7. Isaiah 24:12
    In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
  8. Jeremiah 2:15
    The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
  9. Jeremiah 4:7
    The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
  10. Jeremiah 25:11
    And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
  11. Jeremiah 25:18
    To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
  12. Jeremiah 25:38
    He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
  13. Jeremiah 44:22
    So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
  14. Jeremiah 46:19
    O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
  15. Jeremiah 48:9
    Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
  16. Jeremiah 50:3
    For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
  17. Jeremiah 51:29
    And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
  18. Hosea 5:9
    Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
  19. Joel 1:7
    He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
  20. Micah 6:16
    For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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