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# שַׁמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8047

**waste** — used 39 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/1513/8047/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁמָּה²: n.f. waste, appalment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8047/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. waste, appalment (24 times Je);—abs. שׁ׳ Je 5:30 +; pl. abs. שַׁמּוֹת ψ 46:9;— a waste, of land, etc., ψ 46:9 Ho 5:9; Is 5:9; 13:9; 24:12; Zc 7:14; Je 2:15; 4:7; 18:16; 19:8; 46:19; 48:9; 50:3; 51:29, 43, vine Jo 1:7; pers. ψ 73:19; כּוֹס שׁ׳ וּשְׁמָמָה Ez 23:33. appalment, horror, i.e. occasion of it; of people, land, etc., Dt 28:37; 2 K 22:19; Mi 6:16; Zp 2:15; Je 5:30; 25:9, 11, 18, 38; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12, 22; 49:13, 17; 50:23; 51:37, 41; 2 Ch 29:8; 30:7; שׁ׳ הֶחֱזִקָ֑תְנִי Je 8:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: waste (12); a waste (11); horror (7).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.30/#tree)

שַׁמָּה֙ וְשַׁ֣עֲרוּרָ֔ה נִהְיְתָ֖ה בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* an.atrocious.event and a.horrible.\[thing\] it.has.occurred in the land

*JPS 1917:* An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

[Isaiah 24:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.12/#tree)

נִשְׁאַ֥ר בָּעִ֖יר שַׁמָּ֑ה וּשְׁאִיָּ֖ה יֻכַּת־שָֽׁעַר׃

*Word for word:* it.has.remained in the city desolation and ruin it.will.be.crushed \[the\].gate

*JPS 1917:* In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten unto ruin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8047.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8047/): 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).