Strong's Hebrew · H8047

שַׁמָּה

shammâh · sham-maw'

Definitionruin; by implication, consternation
Derivationfrom H8074 (שָׁמֵם);
KJV usageastonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Occurrences39 in the KJV · 39 verses

שַׁמָּה in Scripture

Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 2 Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke 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 Chronicles 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. 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. Psalms 46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. Psalms 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 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. 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. Isaiah 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 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. Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
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