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 cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;Leviticus 26:33 · שְׁמָמָ֔הAnd you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.Joshua 8:28 · שְׁמָמָ֔הAnd Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during—a desolation unto this day;Isaiah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֔ה · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הYour land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!Isaiah 6:11 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃And I say, ‘Till when, O Lord?’ And He saith, ‘Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted—a desolation,Isaiah 17:9 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.Isaiah 62:4 · שְׁמָמָ֔הIt is not said of thee any more, ‘Forsaken!’ And of thy land it is not said any more, ‘Desolate,’ For to thee is cried, ‘My delight is in her,’ And to thy land, ‘Married,’ For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married.Isaiah 64:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.Jeremiah 4:27 · שְׁמָמָ֥הFor thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.Jeremiah 6:8 · שְׁמָמָ֔הBe 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 make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.Jeremiah 10:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הA voice of a report, lo, it hath come, Even a great shaking from the north country, To make the cities of Judah a desolation, A habitation of dragons.Jeremiah 12:10 · שְׁמָמָֽה׃Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness—a desolation.Jeremiah 12:11 · שְׁמֵמָ֑הHe hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.Jeremiah 25:12 · לְשִֽׁמְמ֥וֹת‘And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation—an affirmation of Jehovah—their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during.Jeremiah 32:43 · שְׁמָמָ֥הand bought hath been the field in this land of which ye are saying, A desolation it is, without man and beast, it hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.Jeremiah 34:22 · שְׁמָמָ֖הLo, I am commanding—an affirmation of Jehovah—and have brought them back unto this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation—without inhabitant.’Jeremiah 44:6 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הand poured out is My fury, and Mine anger, and it burneth in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and they are for a waste, for a desolation, as at this day.Jeremiah 49:2 · שְׁמָמָ֔הTherefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sounded unto Rabbah of the sons of Ammon a shout of battle, And it hath been for a heap—a desolation, And her daughters with fire are burnt, And Israel hath succeeded its heirs, Said hath Jehovah.Jeremiah 49:33 · שְׁמָמָ֖הAnd Hazor hath been for a habitation of dragons, A desolation—unto the age, No one doth dwell there, nor sojourn in it doth a son of man!’Jeremiah 50:13 · שְׁמָמָ֖הBecause of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited, And it hath been a desolation—all of it. Every passer by at Babylon is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.Jeremiah 51:26 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתAnd they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 51:62 · שִׁמְמ֥וֹתand hast said: Jehovah, Thou, Thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even unto cattle, for it is a desolation age-during.Micah 1:7 · שְׁמָמָ֑הAnd all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.Micah 7:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֖הAnd the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.Zephaniah 1:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הAnd their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not drink their wine.Zephaniah 2:4 · לִשְׁמָמָ֑הFor Gaza is forsaken, And Ashkelon is for a desolation, Ashdod! at noon they do cast her forth, And Ekron is rooted up.Zephaniah 2:9 · וּשְׁמָמָ֖הTherefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation—unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.Zephaniah 2:13 · לִשְׁמָמָ֔הAnd He stretcheth His hand against the north, And doth destroy Asshur, And he setteth Nineveh for a desolation, A dry land like a wilderness.Malachi 1:3 · שְׁמָמָ֔הIs not Esau Jacob’s brother?—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.