devastation, waste, desolation Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)
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H8077 — שְׁמָמָה
she.ma.mah · devastation · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 23:29 · שְׁמָמָ֔הI will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.Leviticus 26:33 · שְׁמָמָ֔הAnd you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.Joshua 8:28 · שְׁמָמָ֔הSo Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.Isaiah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֔ה · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הYour country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.Isaiah 6:11 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,Isaiah 17:9 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.Isaiah 62:4 · שְׁמָמָ֔הThou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.Isaiah 64:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Jeremiah 4:27 · שְׁמָמָ֥הFor thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.Jeremiah 6:8 · שְׁמָמָ֔הBe thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.Jeremiah 9:11 · שְׁמָמָ֖הAnd I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 10:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הThe voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.Jeremiah 12:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.Jeremiah 12:11 · שְׁמֵמָ֑הThey have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.Jeremiah 25:12 · לְשִֽׁמְמ֥וֹתAnd it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.Jeremiah 32:43 · שְׁמָמָ֥הAnd fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.Jeremiah 34:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBehold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 44:6 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הWherefore my wrath and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.Jeremiah 49:2 · שְׁמָמָ֔הTherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah.Jeremiah 49:33 · שְׁמָמָ֖הAnd Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.Jeremiah 50:13 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBecause of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.Jeremiah 51:26 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתAnd they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.Jeremiah 51:62 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתand say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.Micah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֑הAnd all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.Micah 7:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הYet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.Zephaniah 1:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הAnd their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.Zephaniah 2:4 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הFor Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.Zephaniah 2:9 · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.Zephaniah 2:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֔הAnd he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.Malachi 1:3 · שְׁמָמָ֔הbut Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.