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# מְשַׁמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4923

**waste** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

waste [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4923/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשַׁמָּה²: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4923/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. = שַׁמָּה;—abs. = devastation, waste, וְנָתַתִּי אֶת־הָאָרֶץ שְׁמָמָה וּמ׳ Ez 6:14; 33:28, cf. v 29 35:3, + 35:7a, v. שְׁמָמָה; pl. מְשַׁמּוֹת Is 15:6 = Je 48:34. horror, וְהָֽיְתָה חֶרְפָּה … וּמ׳ Ez 5:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a waste (4); wastes (2); a horror (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 15:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.6/#tree)

כִּֽי־מֵ֥י נִמְרִ֖ים מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת יִֽהְי֑וּ כִּֽי־יָבֵ֤שׁ חָצִיר֙ כָּ֣לָה דֶ֔שֶׁא יֶ֖רֶק לֹ֥א הָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.waters of.Nimrim wastes they.are (dm) it.has.dried.up grass it.has.wasted.away fresh.grass greenery not it.is

*JPS 1917:* For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, there is no green thing.

[Ezekiel 33:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.28/#tree)

וְנָתַתִּ֤י אֶת־הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ שְׁמָמָ֣ה וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה וְנִשְׁבַּ֖ת גְּא֣וֹן עֻזָּ֑הּ וְשָֽׁמְמ֛וּ הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֵ֥ין עוֹבֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make (et) the land a.desolation and a.waste and it.will.cease the.pride its.strength her and they.will.be.desolate the.mountains of.Israel from not \[one.who\].passes.by

*JPS 1917:* And I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4923.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4923/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).