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 before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.Leviticus 26:33 · שְׁמָמָ֔הBut 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.Joshua 8:28 · שְׁמָמָ֔הSo Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.Isaiah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֔ה · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הYour land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.Isaiah 6:11 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃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,Isaiah 17:9 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.Isaiah 62:4 · שְׁמָמָ֔הNo 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.Isaiah 64:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.Jeremiah 4:27 · שְׁמָמָ֥הFor this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.Jeremiah 6:8 · שְׁמָמָ֔הBe forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”Jeremiah 9:11 · שְׁמָמָ֖ה“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.”Jeremiah 10:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הListen! 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.Jeremiah 12:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.Jeremiah 12:11 · שְׁמֵמָ֑הThey have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.Jeremiah 25:12 · לְשִֽׁמְמ֥וֹתBut 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.Jeremiah 32:43 · שְׁמָמָ֥הAnd 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.’Jeremiah 34:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBehold, 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.”Jeremiah 44:6 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore 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.Jeremiah 49:2 · שְׁמָמָ֔הTherefore, 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.Jeremiah 49:33 · שְׁמָמָ֖ה“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”Jeremiah 50:13 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBecause 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.Jeremiah 51:26 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתNo one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 51:62 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתand 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.’Micah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֑הAll 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.Micah 7:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הThen the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.Zephaniah 1:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הTheir 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.Zephaniah 2:4 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הFor Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.Zephaniah 2:9 · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore, 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.”Zephaniah 2:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֔הAnd He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.Malachi 1:3 · שְׁמָמָ֔הbut Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”