TBESH · H8077A
שְׁמָמָה · she.ma.mah · devastation
devastation, waste, desolation Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)
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she.ma.mah H8077
שְׁמָמָה (she.ma.mah) means “devastation” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
שְׁמָמָה Hebrew · H8077 57 tagged occurrences in 53 verses
Pronunciation guide: shem-aw-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H8077B
שִֽׁמְמָה · shi.me.mah · desolation
devastation, waste, desolation Another spelling of she.ma.mah (שְׁמָמָה "devastation" H8077A)
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TBESH · H8077G
שִֽׁמְמָה · shi.me.mah · Desolate
devastation, waste, desolation Another name of ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389)
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of H8076 (שָׁמֵם); devastation; figuratively, astonishment
KJV glosses: (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.
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How translators render H8077
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 |
|---|---|
| desolate | 16 |
| a desolation | 13 |
| a desolate | 6 |
| desolation | 3 |
| wasteland | 3 |
| a wasteland | 1 |
| and desolate | 1 |
| and desolation | 1 |
| and ravaged | 1 |
| into a desolate | 1 |
| is desolate | 1 |
| it a desolation | 1 |
| laid waste | 1 |
| left in ruins | 1 |
| of ruins | 1 |
| ruin | 1 |
| waste | 1 |
| with despair | 1 |
| you a desolate | 1 |
| you a desolation | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| desolate | 18 |
| a desolation | 7 |
| shall be desolate | 7 |
| desolations | 2 |
| thee desolate | 2 |
| a desolate | 1 |
| and desolate | 1 |
| and desolation | 1 |
| and it shall be a desolate | 1 |
| and there shall be desolation | 1 |
| and thou shalt be desolate | 1 |
| be utterly | 1 |
| become desolate | 1 |
| but it shall be wholly desolate | 1 |
| but that it shall be desolate | 1 |
| but thou shalt be desolate | 1 |
| desolation | 1 |
| it so that it be desolate | 1 |
| most | 1 |
| shall be a desolate | 1 |
| shall be a desolation | 1 |
| them a desolate | 1 |
| they are laid desolate | 1 |
| unto thee thou shalt be desolate | 1 |
| waste | 1 |
| whereas it lay desolate | 1 |
| with desolation | 1 |
Verses containing H8077
Page 1 of 2. 53 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Exodus 23:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
Read word by word - Isaiah 1:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Read word by word - Isaiah 6:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
Read word by word - Isaiah 17:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
Read word by word - Isaiah 62:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
Read word by word - Isaiah 64:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.9
- Jeremiah 4:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 6:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 9:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.10
- Jeremiah 10:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 12:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 12:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 50:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:62
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 6:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 12:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 14:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 14:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 15:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 23:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 29:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 29:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 29:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 32:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 33:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 33:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
Read word by word - Joel 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
Read word by word - Joel 2:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
Read word by word - Joel 3:19
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.19
- Micah 1:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
Read word by word - Micah 7:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
Read word by word - Zephaniah 1:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
Read word by word - Zephaniah 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
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