Strong's #4923: mshammah (pronounced mesh-am-maw')

from 8074; a waste or amazement:--astonishment, desolate.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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meshammâh

1) devastation, horror

1a) devastation, waste

1b) horror

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H8074

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Isaiah 15:6: "the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass"
Jeremiah 48:34: "for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate."
Ezekiel 5:15: "a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute"
Ezekiel 6:14: "the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all"
Ezekiel 33:28: "For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease;"
Ezekiel 33:29: "when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations"
Ezekiel 35:3: "mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate."