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שָׁמֵם

sha.membe desolate: destroyedHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb86 occurrences20 books81 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Traditional renderings: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שָׁמֵם:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

86 total
  1. Leviticus 26:22וְנָשַׁ֖מּוּ · lie desolate
    I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
  2. Leviticus 26:31וַהֲשִׁמּוֹתִ֖י · and lay waste
    I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
  3. Leviticus 26:32וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֥י · will lay waste; וְשָֽׁמְמ֤וּ · will be appalled
    And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
  4. Leviticus 26:34הֳשַׁמָּ֔ה · it lies desolate
    Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
  5. Leviticus 26:35הָשַּׁמָּ֖ה · it lies desolate
    As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
  6. Leviticus 26:43בָּהְשַׁמָּה֙ · by lying desolate
    For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
  7. Numbers 21:30וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים · We demolished them
    But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
  8. 1 Samuel 5:6וַיְשִׁמֵּ֑ם · ravaging them
    Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
  9. 1 Kings 9:8יִשֹּׁ֣ם · will be appalled
    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
  10. 2 Chronicles 7:21יִשֹּׁ֑ם · will be appalled
    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
  11. 2 Chronicles 36:21הָשַּׁמָּה֙ · of the desolation
    So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.
  12. Ezra 9:3מְשׁוֹמֵֽם׃ · in horror
    When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
  13. Ezra 9:4מְשׁוֹמֵ֔ם · in horror
    Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.
  14. Job 16:7הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ · You have devastated
    Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
  15. Job 17:8יָשֹׁ֣מּוּ · are appalled
    The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
  16. Job 18:20נָשַׁ֣מּוּ · are appalled
    Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
  17. Job 21:5וְהָשַׁ֑מּוּ · and be appalled
    Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
  18. Psalm 40:15יָ֭שֹׁמּוּ · be appalled
    May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.
  19. Psalm 69:25נְשַׁמָּ֑ה · be deserted
    May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
  20. Psalm 79:7הֵשַֽׁמּוּ׃ · and devastated
    …for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
  21. Psalm 143:4יִשְׁתּוֹמֵ֥ם · is dismayed
    My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
  22. Ecclesiastes 7:16תִּשּׁוֹמֵֽם׃ · should you destroy yourself?
    Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
  23. Isaiah 33:8נָשַׁ֣מּוּ · are deserted
    The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
  24. Isaiah 49:8שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת׃ · its desolate
    This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
  25. Isaiah 49:19וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ · and desolate places
    For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
  26. Isaiah 52:14שָׁמְמ֤וּ · were appalled
    Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—
  27. Isaiah 54:1שׁוֹמֵמָ֛ה · of the desolate woman
    “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
  28. Isaiah 54:3נְשַׁמּ֖וֹת · the desolate
    For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
  29. Isaiah 59:16וַיִּשְׁתּוֹמֵ֖ם · He was amazed
    He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
  30. Isaiah 61:4שֹׁמְמ֥וֹת · devastated; שֹׁמְמ֖וֹת · the desolations
    They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
  31. Isaiah 63:5וְאֶשְׁתּוֹמֵ֖ם · I was appalled
    I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.
  32. Jeremiah 2:12שֹׁ֥מּוּ · Be stunned
    Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
  33. Jeremiah 4:9וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ · will tremble in fear
    “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”
  34. Jeremiah 10:25הֵשַֽׁמּוּ׃פ · they have devastated
    Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  35. Jeremiah 12:11נָשַׁ֙מָּה֙ · is laid waste
    They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
  36. Jeremiah 18:16יִשֹּׁ֖ם · will be appalled
    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
  37. Jeremiah 19:8יִשֹּׁ֥ם · will be appalled
    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.
  38. Jeremiah 33:10הַֽנְשַׁמּ֗וֹת · that are deserted
    This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
  39. Jeremiah 49:17יִשֹּׁ֥ם · will be appalled
    “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  40. Jeremiah 49:20יַשִּׁ֛ים · will be made desolate
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  41. Jeremiah 50:13יִשֹּׁ֥ם · will be horrified
    Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
  42. Jeremiah 50:45יַשִּׁ֛ים · will be made desolate
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  43. Lamentations 1:4שֽׁוֹמֵמִ֔ין · are deserted
    The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
  44. Lamentations 1:16שֽׁוֹמֵמִ֔ים · destitute
    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
  45. Lamentations 4:5נָשַׁ֖מּוּ · are destitute
    Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
  46. Lamentations 5:18שֶׁשָּׁמֵ֔ם · which lies desolate
    …because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
  47. Ezekiel 3:15מַשְׁמִ֥ים · overwhelmed
    I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.
  48. Ezekiel 4:17וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ · they will be appalled
    So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.