שַׁמָּה shammah
Hebrew word for “horror” · Strong’s H8047 · used 39 times in 39 verses
Meaning
: destroyed/waste; 1) waste, horror, appalment;
Senses in the lexicon
- horror: destroyed (22)
- horror: appalled (17)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shammah in context, with how often each is used:
- waste 23
- horror 12
- desolation 2
- desolations 1
- atrocious event 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 24 | 1.1 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Joel | 1 | 1.0 | |
| Micah | 1 | 0.7 | |
| Zephaniah | 1 | 1.3 | |
| Zechariah | 1 | 0.3 |
Chapters where it is used most
Jeremiah 25 (4), Jeremiah 51 (4), Jeremiah 44 (2), Jeremiah 49 (2), Jeremiah 50 (2), Deuteronomy 28 (1), 2 Kings 22 (1), 2 Chronicles 29 (1), 2 Chronicles 30 (1), Psalms 46 (1)
Forms
- לשׁמה 30
- שׁמה 5
- ולשׁמה 3
- שׁמות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shammah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שְׁרֵקָה shereqah “hissing” 7
- יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 15
- קְלָלָה qelalah “curse” 6
- שׂוּם sum “to set” 10
- חׇרְבָּה chorbah “desolation” 5
- גּוֹי goy “nation” 8
- עִיר ir “city” 9
- חֶרְפָּה cherpah “reproach” 5
- בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 6
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 7
- עָבַר avar “to pass” 6
- אֵיךְ ekh “how?” 4
Key verses
The verses using shammah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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…
- Psalms 73:19 — How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- 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…
- Jeremiah 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- Jeremiah 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against…
- 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…
- Jeremiah 29:18 — And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be…
- Jeremiah 42:18 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be…
- 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…
- 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…
- Zechariah 7:14 — But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned:…
See all 39 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.