Strong's #8077: shmamah (pronounced shem-aw-maw')
or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}; feminine of 8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment:--(laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
shemâmâh / shimâmâh
1) devastation, waste, desolation
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H8076
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2409b, 2409c
Usage:
This word is used 57 times:
Micah 1:7: "and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire"
Micah 7:13: "Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings."
Zephaniah 1:13: "shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit"
Zephaniah 2:4: "shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron"
Zephaniah 2:9: "of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people"
Zephaniah 2:13: "and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness."
Malachi 1:3: "his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness."
