שָׁמֵם shamem

Hebrew word for “be desolate” · Strong’s H8074 · used 86 times in 81 verses

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Meaning

: destroyed/deserted;

Senses in the lexicon

• be desolate: destroyed (57)
• be desolate: appalled (29)

How it is translated

Glosses given for shamem in context, with how often each is used:

• appalled 12
• desolate 10
• will be appalled 10
• will devastate 7
• made desolate 5
• desolated 5
• have devastated 4
• will be desolate 3
• desolate places 3
• desolating 3
• being made desolate 2
• will be made desolate 2

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 26 (6), Ezekiel 36 (4), Ezekiel 30 (3), Daniel 9 (3), Ezra 9 (2), Isaiah 49 (2), Isaiah 54 (2), Jeremiah 49 (2), Jeremiah 50 (2), Lamentations 1 (2)

Forms

• ונשׁמו 6
• ישׁם 6
• נשׁמו 5
• והשׁמתי 4
• נשׁמה 4
• שׁממות 4
• נשׁמות 4
• שׁממו 4
• השׁמה 3
• ושׁממו 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shamem more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 17
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 12
• שְׁמָמָה shemamah “devastation” 7
• עִיר ir “city” 13
• אֲנִי ani “I” 11
• שָׁבַת shavat “to cease” 6
• חָרֵב charev “to destroy” 5
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 9
• שָׁרַק sharaq “to whistle” 4
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 7
• יָדַע yada “to know” 8
• נָוֶה naveh “pasture” 4

Key verses

The verses using shamem that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:31 — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
• Isaiah 49:8 — Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a…
• Isaiah 54:1 — Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the…
• Jeremiah 10:25 — Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and…
• Jeremiah 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
• Lamentations 1:16 — For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are…
• Daniel 8:13 — Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and…
• Daniel 9:18 — O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our…
• Daniel 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the…
• Daniel 9:27 — And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the…
• Amos 9:14 — And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink…
• 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:…

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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.