Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4923
מְשַׁמָּה
meshammahmesh-am-maw'
devastation
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉshammâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4923is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4923
a waste or amazement
The King James renders it: astonishment, 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
meshammah is rendered "devastation". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 15:6The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
Isaiah 15:6מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת
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 a waste4
- and a horror1
- into wastes1
- wastes1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְשַׁח | meshach | oil | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה3
- וּמְשַׁמָּה֙1
- וּמְשַׁמָּֽה׃1
- לִמְשַׁמּ֖וֹת1
- מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular5HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
Isaiah
one use
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- מְשַׁמּ֣וֹתmeshamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: wastes
Jeremiah
one use
There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- לִמְשַׁמּ֖וֹתlimshamotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: into wastes
Ezekiel
five uses
So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- וּמְשַׁמָּ֔הumeshamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a horror
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- וּמְשַׁמָּה֙umeshamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a waste
I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
- וּמְשַׁמָּ֔הumeshamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a waste
Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’
- וּמְשַׁמָּ֔הumeshamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a waste
and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
- וּמְשַׁמָּֽה׃umeshamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a waste
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.