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שַׁמָּה H8047

H8047 is the Hebrew word שַׁמָּה, transliterated shammâh and said sham-maw'. The King James Version most often renders it astonishment.

Word: שַׁמָּהTransliteration: shammâhSaid: sham-maw'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 38 verses

What it means

ruin; by implication, consternation.

Where it comes from

from H8074 (שָׁמֵם).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 38 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

astonishment 11×desolate 8×desolation 6×waste 3×become a desolation 3×become an astonishment 2×should become a desolation 1×desolations 1×brought into desolation 1×wonderful 1×thereof shall be desolate 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Verses using שַׁמָּה

All 38 verses, quoted in full.

Deuteronomy 28:37 · KJV

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

2 Kings 22:19 · KJV

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:8 · KJV

Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

2 Chronicles 30:7 · KJV

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Psalm 46:8 · KJV

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

Psalm 73:19 · KJV

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Isaiah 5:9 · KJV

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 13:9 · KJV

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Isaiah 24:12 · KJV

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Jeremiah 2:15 · KJV

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:7 · KJV

The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 5:30 · KJV

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

Jeremiah 8:21 · KJV

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 18:16 · KJV

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Jeremiah 19:8 · KJV

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Jeremiah 25:9 · KJV

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 25:11 · KJV

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:18 · KJV

To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

Jeremiah 25:38 · KJV

He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 29:18 · KJV

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Jeremiah 42:18 · KJV

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 44:12 · KJV

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Jeremiah 44:22 · KJV

So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Jeremiah 46:19 · KJV

O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 48:9 · KJV

Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

Jeremiah 49:13 · KJV

For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 49:17 · KJV

Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

Jeremiah 50:3 · KJV

For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

Jeremiah 50:23 · KJV

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:29 · KJV

And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:37 · KJV

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:41 · KJV

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:43 · KJV

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Ezekiel 23:33 · KJV

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

Hosea 5:9 · KJV

Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

Joel 1:7 · KJV

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Micah 6:16 · KJV

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

Zephaniah 2:15 · KJV

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

Common questions

What does Strong's H8047 mean?

H8047 is the Hebrew word שַׁמָּה (shammâh), meaning ruin; by implication, consternation.

How is H8047 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it astonishment (11 times), desolate (8 times), desolation (6 times), waste (3 times), become a desolation (3 times), among others.

How many times does H8047 appear in the Bible?

שַׁמָּה (shammâh) is tagged in 38 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H8047 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H8074 (שָׁמֵם).

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