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 you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.Leviticus 26:33 · שְׁמָמָ֔הI will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.Joshua 8:28 · שְׁמָמָ֔הSo Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.Isaiah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֔ה · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הYour country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.Isaiah 6:11 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,Isaiah 17:9 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.Isaiah 62:4 · שְׁמָמָ֔הYou shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.Isaiah 64:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Jeremiah 4:27 · שְׁמָמָ֥הFor thus says Yahweh, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.Jeremiah 6:8 · שְׁמָמָ֔הBe instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”Jeremiah 9:11 · שְׁמָמָ֖הI 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 news, behold, it comes, 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 mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.Jeremiah 25:12 · לְשִֽׁמְמ֥וֹתIt shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.Jeremiah 32:43 · שְׁמָמָ֥הFields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.Jeremiah 34:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBehold, I will command, says Yahweh, 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 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore my wrath and my 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, says Yahweh, 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 those who possessed him, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 49:33 · שְׁמָמָ֖הHazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.Jeremiah 50:13 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBecause of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.Jeremiah 51:26 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתThey shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:62 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתand say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.Micah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֑הAll her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”Micah 7:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הYet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.Zephaniah 1:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הTheir wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.Zephaniah 2:4 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הFor Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.Zephaniah 2:9 · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.Zephaniah 2:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֔הHe will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as 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.”