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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 · H8077A

שְׁמָמָה · she.ma.mah · devastation

devastation, waste, desolation Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)

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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.

BSB rendering counts
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
KJV rendering counts
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

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  1. Zephaniah 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

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  2. Zephaniah 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

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  3. Malachi 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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Sources and text

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