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:
Lamentations 5:18: "the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk"
Ezekiel 3:15: "sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days."
Ezekiel 4:17: "they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity."
Ezekiel 6:4: "And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols."
Ezekiel 20:26: "that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that"
Ezekiel 25:3: "and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah,"
Ezekiel 26:16: "upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at"
Ezekiel 27:35: "All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid,"
Ezekiel 28:19: "All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never"
Ezekiel 29:12: "desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste"
Ezekiel 30:7: " And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities"
Ezekiel 30:7: "And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities"
Ezekiel 30:12: "the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:"
Ezekiel 30:14: " And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments"
Ezekiel 32:10: " Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for"
Ezekiel 32:15: "of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite"
Ezekiel 33:28: "of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through."
Ezekiel 35:12: "the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume."
Ezekiel 35:15: "of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be"
Ezekiel 36:3: "the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side,"
Ezekiel 36:4: "and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which"
Ezekiel 36:34: " And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight"
Ezekiel 36:35: "And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste"
Ezekiel 36:35: "like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited."
Ezekiel 36:36: "build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do"
Daniel 8:13: "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host"
Daniel 8:27: "the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood"
Daniel 9:18: "open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by"
Daniel 9:26: "and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
Daniel 9:27: "and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured"
Daniel 11:31: "the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate."
Daniel 12:11: "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred"
Hosea 2:12: " And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that"
Joel 1:17: "under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn"
Amos 7:9: "And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against"
Amos 9:14: "of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,"
Micah 6:13: "will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins."
Zephaniah 3:6: "I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none"
Zechariah 7:14: "they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned:"
