devastation, waste, desolation Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)
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H8077 — שְׁמָמָה
she.ma.mah · devastation · Hebrew/Aramaic
30 tagged verse occurrences
Exodus 23:29 · שְׁמָמָ֔הI will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.Leviticus 26:33 · שְׁמָמָ֔הAnd I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.Joshua 8:28 · שְׁמָמָ֔הAnd Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an 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 the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,Isaiah 17:9 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be 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 Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.Isaiah 64:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Jeremiah 4:27 · שְׁמָמָ֥הFor thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.Jeremiah 6:8 · שְׁמָמָ֔הBe thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.Jeremiah 9:11 · שְׁמָמָ֖הAnd I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.Jeremiah 10:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBehold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.Jeremiah 12:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Many pastors 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 desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto me; 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 the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.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 the LORD, 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 an inhabitant.Jeremiah 44:6 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הWherefore my fury 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 at this day.Jeremiah 49:2 · שְׁמָמָ֔הTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 49:33 · שְׁמָמָ֖הAnd Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.Jeremiah 50:13 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBecause of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it 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 the LORD.Jeremiah 51:62 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתThen shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.Micah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֑הAnd all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.Micah 7:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הNotwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.Zephaniah 1:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הTherefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.Zephaniah 2:4 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הFor Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.Zephaniah 2:9 · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess 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 a wilderness.Malachi 1:3 · שְׁמָמָ֔הAnd I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.