H8077 - שְׁמָמָה (shᵉmâmâh)

H8077 שְׁמָמָה (shᵉmâmâh) shem-aw-maw'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

devastation; figuratively, astonishment

Derivation: or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of H8076 (שָׁמֵם);

KJV Usage: (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.

TWOT Reference: 2409b,c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) devastation, waste, desolation

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G684 G854 G2047 G2671

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שִׁמָמָה / שְׁמָמָה shemâmâh / shimâmâh BDB Definition: 1) devastation, waste, desolation Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H8076 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2409b, 2409c Total KJV Occurrences: 57

Bible Occurrences (53)

23:29

26:33

8:28

1:7 6:11 17:9 62:4 64:10

4:27 6:8 9:11 10:22 12:10 12:11 25:12 32:43 34:22 44:6 49:2 49:33 50:13 51:26 51:62

2:3 2:20 3:19

1:7 7:13

1:13 2:4 2:9 2:13

1:3

Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is desolate; your cities [are] burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you — a desolation demolished by strangers.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked: How long..., O Lord? And He replied: Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied... and the land is desolate and ravaged,

Isaiah 17:9

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites... and to utter desolation.

Isaiah 62:4

No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land... named... Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland [and] Jerusalem a desolation.