שַׁמָּה (sham.mah) means “horror: destroyed” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: sham-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שַׁמָּה · sham.mah · horror: destroyed
: destroyed/waste 1) waste, horror, appalment 1a) a waste (of land, city, etc) 1b) appalment, horror Also means: sham.mah (שַׁמָּה ": appalled" H8047H)
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שַׁמָּה · sham.mah · horror: appalled
: appalled 1) waste, horror, appalment 1a) a waste (of land, city, etc) 1b) appalment, horror
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from H8074 (שָׁמֵם); ruin; by implication, consternation
KJV glosses: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a desolation | 11 |
| an object of horror | 6 |
| a horror | 3 |
| laid waste | 3 |
| waste | 3 |
| and horror | 2 |
| desolate | 2 |
| horror | 2 |
| a horrible | 1 |
| a ruin | 1 |
| devastation | 1 |
| in ruins | 1 |
| into a desolation | 1 |
| of devastation | 1 |
| wasteland | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| desolate | 6 |
| an astonishment | 4 |
| and an astonishment | 3 |
| shall be desolate | 2 |
| waste | 2 |
| a desolation | 1 |
| a wonderful | 1 |
| and thou shalt become an astonishment | 1 |
| are a desolation | 1 |
| astonishment | 1 |
| become a desolation | 1 |
| become an astonishment | 1 |
| desolation | 1 |
| into desolation | 1 |
| is desolate | 1 |
| me how is she become a desolation | 1 |
| of astonishment | 1 |
| shall be a desolation | 1 |
| shall be waste | 1 |
| shall become a desolation | 1 |
| thee a desolation | 1 |
| them an astonishment | 1 |
| thereof shall be desolate | 1 |
| thereof that they should become a desolation | 1 |
| to astonishment | 1 |
| to desolation | 1 |
| what desolations | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 39 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Read word by wordbecause your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
Read word by wordTherefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
Read word by wordDo not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
Read word by wordCome, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 46.9
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
Read word by wordI heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
Read word by wordBehold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
Read word by wordThe city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
Read word by wordThe young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
Read word by wordA lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
Read word by wordA horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
Read word by wordFor the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
Read word by wordThey have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
Read word by wordI will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Read word by wordbehold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Read word by wordAnd this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Read word by wordto make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
Read word by wordHe has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Read word by wordI will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
Read word by wordFor this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
Read word by wordAnd I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
Read word by wordSo the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Read word by wordPack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
Read word by wordPut salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
Read word by wordFor by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
Read word by word“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Read word by wordFor a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
Read word by wordHow the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Read word by wordThe earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Read word by wordBabylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Read word by wordHow Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Read word by wordHer cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
Read word by wordYou will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
Read word by wordEphraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
Read word by wordIt has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
Read word by wordYou have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
Read word by wordThis carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
Read word by wordBut I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
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