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# שְׁמָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8077

**a devastation** — used 56 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

a devastation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8077/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמָמָה: n.f. devastation, waste Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8077/#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: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a desolation (26); desolation (11); a waste (7).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 64:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.9/#tree)

עָרֵ֥י קָדְשְׁךָ֖ הָי֣וּ מִדְבָּ֑ר צִיּוֹן֙ מִדְבָּ֣ר הָיָ֔תָה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם שְׁמָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.cities your.holiness your they.have.been a.wilderness Zion a.wilderness it.has.been Jerusalem a.desolation

*JPS 1917:* Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

[Ezekiel 23:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.33/#tree)

שִׁכָּר֥וֹן וְיָג֖וֹן תִּמָּלֵ֑אִי כּ֚וֹס שַׁמָּ֣ה וּשְׁמָמָ֔ה כּ֖וֹס אֲחוֹתֵ֥ךְ שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* drunkenness and sorrow you.will.be.filled \[is\].a.cup of.horror and desolation the.cup your.sister your Samaria

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and appalment, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8077.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8077/): 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).