Hebrew verb · H3456
יָשַׁם
yashamyaw-sham'
be desolate
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâsham
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3456is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3456
to lie waste
The King James renders it: be desolate.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yasham is rendered "be desolate". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:19Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
Genesis 47:19תֵשָֽׁם׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it was desolate1
- it may be desolate1
- it will be desolate1
- they will be desolate1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַתֵּ֤שַׁם1
- תִּישָׁ֑מְנָה1
- תֵּשַׁ֤ם1
- תֵשָֽׁם׃1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine plural1HVqi2fp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqj3fs
Genesis
one use
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
- תֵשָֽׁם׃teshamverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be desolate
Ezekiel
three uses
Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
- תִּישָׁ֑מְנָהtishamenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: they will be desolate
Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
- תֵּשַׁ֤םteshamverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it may be desolate
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
- וַתֵּ֤שַׁםvateshamHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was desolate
The letters
Gematria 350· 910 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.