Strong's #3456: yasham (pronounced yaw-sham')

a primitive root; to lie waste:--be desolate.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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yâsham

1) (Qal) to ruin, be desolate

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Genesis 47:19: "and not die, that the land be not desolate."
Ezekiel 6:6: "the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate,"
Ezekiel 12:19: "with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence"
Ezekiel 19:7: "and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his roaring."