Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8047
שַׁמָּה
shammahsham-maw'
horror: destroyed
39 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shammâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8047is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8047
ruin; by implication, consternation
The King James renders it: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
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
shammah is rendered "horror: destroyed". It stands 39 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Twenty-four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:37לְשַׁמָּ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-four of the word's thirty-nine uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into a waste21
- into a horror9
- and into a waste2
- desolation2
- a horror1
- an atrocious event1
- and into a horror1
- desolations1
- horror1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 39, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- לְשַׁמָּ֔ה10
- לְשַׁמָּ֣ה7
- לְשַׁמָּ֖ה3
- לְשַׁמָּ֛ה3
- וּלְשַׁמָּה֙2
- לְשַׁמָּ֑ה2
- לְשַׁמָּ֗ה2
- וּלְשַׁמָּ֧ה1
- לְשַׁמָּה֙1
- לְשַׁמָּ֧ה1
- לְשַׁמָּֽה׃ פ1
- שַׁמָּ֑ה1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular30HR/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular3HC/R/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
Deuteronomy
one use
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
2 Kings
one use
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
- לְשַׁמָּה֙leshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
2 Chronicles
two uses
Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
Psalms
two uses
Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.
- שַׁמּ֣וֹתshamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: desolations
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Isaiah
three uses
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
- שַׁמָּ֑הshamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: desolation
Jeremiah
twenty-four uses
The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
- שַׁמָּה֙shamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an atrocious event
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
- שַׁמָּ֖הshamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: desolation
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- לְשַׁמָּ֖הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- לְשַׁמָּ֖הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- לְשַׁמָּ֑הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- לְשַׁמָּ֛הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
- וּלְשַׁמָּה֙uleshamahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a waste
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
- וּלְשַׁמָּה֙uleshamahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a horror
And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
- וּלְשַׁמָּ֧הuleshamahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a waste
Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- לְשַׁמָּ֧הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- לְשַׁמָּ֑הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- לְשַׁמָּ֛הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
- לְשַׁמָּ֖הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- שַׁמָּ֥הshamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a horror
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- לְשַׁמָּ֛הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Ezekiel
one use
You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
- שַׁמָּ֣הshamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: horror
Hosea
one use
Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
- לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Joel
one use
It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- לְשַׁמָּ֔הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Micah
one use
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- לְשַׁמָּ֗הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a horror
Zephaniah
one use
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- לְשַׁמָּ֗הleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a waste
Zechariah
one use
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
- לְשַׁמָּֽה׃ פleshamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into 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.