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# שָׁמֵם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8076

**devastated** — used 2 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

devastated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8076/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁמֵם²: adj. devastated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8076/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. devastated;—שׁ׳ of sanctuary Dn 9:17; f. שְׁמֵמָה of land Je 12:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: desolate (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.11/#tree)

שָׂמָהּ֙ לִשְׁמָמָ֔ה אָבְלָ֥ה עָלַ֖י שְׁמֵמָ֑ה נָשַׁ֙מָּה֙ כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין אִ֖ישׁ שָׂ֥ם עַל־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* he has.made.it into a.desolation it.is.in.mourning on me desolate it.has.been.made.desolate all the land (dm) there.\[is\].not anyone \[who\].puts.\[it\] on heart

*JPS 1917:* They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

[Daniel 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.17/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֣ה ׀ שְׁמַ֣ע אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ אֶל־תְּפִלַּ֤ת עַבְדְּךָ֙ וְאֶל־תַּ֣חֲנוּנָ֔יו וְהָאֵ֣ר פָּנֶ֔יךָ עַל־מִקְדָּשְׁךָ֖ הַשָּׁמֵ֑ם לְמַ֖עַן אֲדֹנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and therefore listen our.God O to the.prayer your.servant your and to supplications his and make.shine face your on sanctuary your (the) desolate for.the.sake.of Lord \[the\]

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of Thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8076.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8076/): 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).