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# שִׁמָמָה

Biblical Hebrew

**devastation** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

devastation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמָמָה: n.f. devastation, waste Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a devastation, waste;—abs. שׁ׳ Ex 23:29 +; pl. cstr. שִׁמְמוֹת Je 51:26 +;—waste, usually of land, city, houses, etc., Ex 23:29 (E), Is 1:7 (prob. del., with words foll. StuJPTh. 1877, 714 FBJBL (1890), 84), Lv 26:33 (H), Je 4:27 + 14 times Je (‖ מֵאֵין אָדָם וגו׳ 32:43, מֵאֵין ישֵׁב 34:22), Ez 6:14 + 18 times Ez (35:7a read שְׁמָמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה for MT שִֽׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה, so Hi Co Toy Krae al.) +; of prince, יִלְבַּשׁ שׁ׳ Ez 7:27; of idols Mi 1:7; כּוֹס שַׁמָּה וּשׁ׳ Ez 23:33.—Ez 35:12 v. שׁמם Qal.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a desolation (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 35:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.35.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.35.7/#tree)

וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ אֶת־הַ֣ר שֵׂעִ֔יר לְשִֽׁמְמָ֖ה וּשְׁמָמָ֑ה וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י מִמֶּ֖נּוּ עֹבֵ֥ר וָשָֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make (et) the.mountain of.Seir into a.desolation and a.desolation and I.will.cut.off from it \[one.who\].passes.through and \[one.who\].returns

*JPS 1917:* Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4/): 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).