Strong's #8047: shammah (pronounced sham-maw')

from 8074; ruin; by implication, consternation:--astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shammâh

1) waste, horror, appalment

1a) a waste (of land, city, etc)

1b) appalment, horror

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H8074

Usage:

This word is used 39 times:

 

Deuteronomy 28:37: "And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither"
2 Kings 22:19: "place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent"
2 Chronicles 29:8: "and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see"
2 Chronicles 30:7: "God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see."
Psalms 46:8: "the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth."
Psalms 73:19: "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors."
Isaiah 5:9: "Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without"
Isaiah 13:9: "anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of"
Isaiah 24:12: "In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction."
Jeremiah 2:15: "him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without"
Jeremiah 4:7: "he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,"
Jeremiah 5:30: " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;"
Jeremiah 8:21: "of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold"
Jeremiah 18:16: "To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby"
Jeremiah 19:8: "this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby"
Jeremiah 25:9: "round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations."
Jeremiah 25:11: "land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve"
Jeremiah 25:18: "the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;"
Jeremiah 25:38: "for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor,"
Jeremiah 29:18: "to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all"
Jeremiah 42:18: "enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see"
Jeremiah 44:12: "by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach."
Jeremiah 44:22: "which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without"
Jeremiah 46:19: "thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without"
Jeremiah 48:9: "and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein."
Jeremiah 49:13: "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all"
Jeremiah 49:17: "Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss"
Jeremiah 50:3: "her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell"
Jeremiah 50:23: "how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!"
Jeremiah 51:29: "the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant."
Jeremiah 51:37: "heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant."
Jeremiah 51:41: "how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!"
Jeremiah 51:43: "Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein"
Ezekiel 23:33: "with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria."
Hosea 5:9: "Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known"
Joel 1:7: "He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away;"
Micah 6:16: "in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach"
Zephaniah 2:15: "beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth"
Zechariah 7:14: "nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate."