Strong's #8074: shamem (pronounced shaw-mame')
a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense):--make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâmêm
1) to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled
1a2) to be appalled, be awestruck
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be desolated, be made desolate
1b2) to be appalled
1c) (Polel)
1c1) to be stunned
1c2) appalling, causing horror (participle)
1c2a) horror-causer, appaller (substantive)
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to devastate, ravage, make desolated
1d2) to appal, show horror
1e) (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated
1f) (Hithpolel)
1f1) to cause to be desolate
1f2) to be appalled, be astounded
1f3) to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself ruin
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 89 times:
Leviticus 26:22: "your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate."
Leviticus 26:31: "your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell"
Leviticus 26:32: "And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at"
Leviticus 26:32: "will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at"
Leviticus 26:34: "her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land;"
Leviticus 26:35: "As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest"
Leviticus 26:43: "them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept"
Numbers 21:30: "is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto"
1 Samuel 5:6: "was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod"
2 Samuel 13:20: "not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's"
1 Kings 9:8: "every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD"
2 Chronicles 7:21: "which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say,"
2 Chronicles 36:21: "her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten"
Ezra 9:3: "the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished."
Ezra 9:4: "of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice."
Job 16:7: "But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company."
Job 17:8: "Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite."
Job 18:20: "They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were frightened."
Job 21:5: "Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth."
Psalms 40:15: " Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha."
Psalms 69:25: "Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents."
Psalms 79:7: "they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place."
Psalms 143:4: "within me; my heart within me is desolate."
Ecclesiastes 7:16: "neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?"
Isaiah 33:8: "The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised"
Isaiah 49:8: "to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;"
Isaiah 49:19: "For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow"
Isaiah 52:14: "As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man,"
Isaiah 54:1: "for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith"
Isaiah 54:3: "and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited."
Isaiah 59:16: "that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm"
Isaiah 61:4: "wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations"
Isaiah 61:4: "and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations."
Isaiah 63:5: "And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation"
Jeremiah 2:12: " Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith"
Jeremiah 4:9: "and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder."
Jeremiah 10:25: "and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate."
Jeremiah 12:11: "me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth"
Jeremiah 18:16: "every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head."
Jeremiah 19:8: "every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues"
Jeremiah 33:10: "beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without"
Jeremiah 49:17: "every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues"
Jeremiah 49:20: "of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with"
Jeremiah 50:13: "every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all"
Jeremiah 50:45: "of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with"
Lamentations 1:4: "come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins"
Lamentations 1:13: "for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day."
Lamentations 1:16: "from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed."
Lamentations 3:11: "my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate."
Lamentations 4:5: "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace"
