מְשַׁמָּהmᵉshammâh
a waste or amazement
Pronunciation: mesh-am-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4923
Meanings
1. = devastation, waste (Ezekiel 6:14; Ezekiel 33:28; Ezekiel 33:29)
2. horror (Ezekiel 5:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Isaiah 15:6 Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.
- Jeremiah 48:34 “Instead, their awful cries of terror can be heard from Heshbon clear across to Elealeh and Jahaz; from Zoar all the way to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up now.
- Ezekiel 5:15 You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the Lord punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 6:14 I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah in the north. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
- Ezekiel 33:28 I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride. Her arrogant power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate that no one will even travel through them.
- Ezekiel 33:29 When I have completely destroyed the land because of their detestable sins, then they will know that I am the Lord.’
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).