שְׁמָמָה shemamah

Hebrew word for “devastation” · Strong’s H8077 · used 57 times in 53 verses

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Meaning

devastation, waste, desolation; Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)

Senses in the lexicon

• devastation (55)
• Desolate (1)
• desolation (1)

How it is translated

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

• desolation 43
• waste 8
• desolations 3
• desolate 1
• wastes 1
• will become a desolation 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 35 (6), Ezekiel 29 (3), Zephaniah 2 (3), Jeremiah 12 (2), Jeremiah 49 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Ezekiel 14 (2), Ezekiel 33 (2), Joel 2 (2), Exodus 23 (1)

Forms

• שׁממה 40
• לשׁממה 8
• ושׁממה 5
• שׁממות 3
• לשׁממות 1

Words used with it

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

• עִיר ir “city” 13
• שָׁמֵם shamem “be desolate” 7
• אֲנִי ani “I” 11
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 11
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 9
• מְשַׁמָּה meshammah “devastation” 4
• חׇרְבָּה chorbah “desolation” 5
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 7
• יָדַע yada “to know” 9
• נְאֻם neum “utterance” 7
• עוֹלָם olam “forever” 7
• תַּן tan “jackal” 4

Key verses

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

• Leviticus 26:33 — And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
• Isaiah 1:7 — Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 6:11 — Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
• Isaiah 62:4 — Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the…
• Isaiah 64:10 — Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jeremiah 6:8 — Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
• Jeremiah 9:11 — And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 25:12 — And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity,…
• Jeremiah 34:22 — Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will…
• Joel 3:19 — Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in…
• Zephaniah 2:9 — Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of…
• Malachi 1:3 — And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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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.