שָׁמֵםshâmêm
be desoleted, appalled
Pronunciation: shaw-mame' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8074
Meanings
Qal
1. usually of land, etc., be desolated (2 Samuel 13:20; Lamentations 1:16; Lamentations 1:13)
2. be appalled, awestruck (Leviticus 26:32; Jeremiah 2:12; Ezekiel 26:16)
Niph`al: = Qal (Jeremiah 12:11; Zephaniah 3:6; Ezekiel 36:34)
1. be desolated (Leviticus 26:22; Isaiah 33:8; Amos 7:9)
2. be appalled (Jeremiah 4:9; Lamentations 4:5; Ezekiel 4:17)
Po`
1. appalled (Ezra 9:3; Ezra 9:4)
2. appalling, causing horror (Daniel 15:1-200; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 9:27)
Hiph`il
1. devastate, ravage (1 Samuel 5:6; Ezekiel 20:26; Hosea 2:14)
2.
a. appall (Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45; Ezekiel 32:10)
b. shewing horror, inwardly transitive (Ezekiel 3:15; Job 21:5)
Hoph`al: being desolate (Leviticus 26:34; Leviticus 26:35; 2 Chronicles 36:21)
Hithpo`el
1. be appalled, astounded (Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5; Daniel 8:27)
2. cause oneself desolation, ruin (Ecclesiastes 7:16)
Same root
- מְשַׁמָּהmᵉshammâh · H4923a waste or amazement
- שַׁמָּאShammâʼ · H8037Shamma, an Israelite
- שַׁמָּהshammâh · H8047ruin; by implication, consternation
- שַׁמּוּעַShammûwaʻ · H8051Shammua, the name of four Israelites
- שְׁמוּעָהshᵉmûwʻâh · H8052something heard, i.e. an announcement
- שְׁמַםshᵉmam · H8075{to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)}
- שָׁמֵםshâmêm · H8076ruined
- שִׁמָּמוֹןshimmâmôwn · H8078stupefaction
Where it appears
Appears 86 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 26:22 I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.
- Leviticus 26:31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.
- Leviticus 26:32 Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see.
- Leviticus 26:34 Then at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed.
- Leviticus 26:35 As long as the land lies in ruins, it will enjoy the rest you never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it.
- Leviticus 26:43 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.
See every passage
- Leviticus 26:22, 26:31, 26:32, 26:34, 26:35, 26:43
- Numbers 21:30
- 1 Samuel 5:6
- 1 Kings 9:8
- 2 Chronicles 7:21, 36:21
- Ezra 9:3, 9:4
- Job 16:7, 17:8, 18:20, 21:5
- Psalms 40:15, 69:25, 79:7, 143:4
- Ecclesiastes 7:16
- Isaiah 33:8, 49:8, 49:19, 52:14, 54:1, 54:3, 59:16, 61:4, 63:5
- Jeremiah 2:12, 4:9, 10:25, 12:11, 18:16, 19:8, 33:10, 49:17, 49:20, 50:13, 50:45
- Lamentations 1:4, 1:16, 4:5, 5:18
- Ezekiel 3:15, 4:17, 6:4, 20:26, 25:3, 26:16, 27:35, 28:19, 29:12, 30:7, 30:12, 30:14, 32:10, 32:15, 33:28, 35:12, 35:15, 36:3, 36:34, 36:35, 36:36
- Daniel 8:13, 8:27, 9:18, 9:26, 9:27, 11:31, 12:11
- Hosea 2:12
- Joel 1:17
- Amos 7:9, 9:14
- Micah 6:13
- Zephaniah 3:6
- Zechariah 7:14
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).