H8047

שׁמּה 

Transliteration

shammah;

Pronunciation

sham-maw'

Parts of Speech

n f

Root Word (Etymology)

from 8074

Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2409d

KJV Translation Count — 39x

The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: astonishment (13), desolation (12), desolate (10), waste (3), wonderful (1)

Outline of Biblical Usage

1. waste, horror, appalment
a. a waste (of land, city, etc)
b. appalment, horror

Strong's Definitions

shammah, sham-maw'; from 8074; ruin; by implication, consternation: — astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Concordance Results Using KJV

And thou shalt become an H8047, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

KJV

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a H8047 and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

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Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to H8047, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to H8047, as ye see.

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Come, behold the works of the LORD, what H8047s he hath made in the earth.

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How are they brought into H8047, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be H8047, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

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Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land H8047: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

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In the city is left H8047, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land H8047: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

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