יָשַׁם

ya.shambe desolateHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb4 occurrences2 books4 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to lie waste
Traditional renderings: be desolate.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

4 total
  1. Genesis 47:19תֵשָֽׁם׃ · become desolate
    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.”
  2. Ezekiel 6:6תִּישָׁ֑מְנָה · will be demolished
    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.
  3. Ezekiel 12:19תֵּשַׁ֤ם · will be stripped
    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.
  4. Ezekiel 19:7וַתֵּ֤שַׁם · shuddered
    He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.