H8047 - שַׁמָּה (shammâh)

H8047 שַׁמָּה (shammâh) sham-maw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

horror: destroyed

Strong's Definition

ruin; by implication, consternation

Derivation: from H8074 (שָׁמֵם);

KJV Usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

TWOT Reference: 2409d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) waste, horror, appalment

1a) a waste (of land, city, etc)

1b) appalment, horror

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G135 G854 G1611 G5059

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שַׁמָּה shammâh BDB Definition: 1) waste, horror, appalment 1a) a waste (of land, city, etc) 1b) appalment, horror Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H8074 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2409d Total KJV Occurrences: 43

Bible Occurrences (39)

28:37

22:19

29:8 30:7

46:8 73:19

5:9 13:9 24:12

2:15 4:7 5:30 8:21 18:16 19:8 25:9 25:11 25:18 25:38 29:18 42:18 44:12 44:22 46:19 48:9 49:13 49:17 50:3 50:23 51:29 51:37 51:41 51:43

23:33

5:9

1:7

6:16

2:15

7:14

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD... will drive you.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me,... I have heard [you], declares the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

Isaiah 5:9

I heard the LORD of Hosts {declare}: Surely... many houses will become desolate, great mansions... left unoccupied.

Isaiah 13:9

Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger...— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.