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# שִׁמָּמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8078

**appalment** — 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

appalment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8078/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמָּמוֹן: appalment, horror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8078/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] appalment, horror (BaNB 324, 336; another view LagBN 202, 203);—abs. Ez 4:16 drink water בְּשׁ׳, so 12:19.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.16/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י בֶּן־אָדָם֙ הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁבֵ֤ר מַטֵּה־לֶ֙חֶם֙ בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְאָכְלוּ־לֶ֥חֶם בְּמִשְׁקָ֖ל וּבִדְאָגָ֑ה וּמַ֕יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה וּבְשִׁמָּמ֖וֹן יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me O.son of.humankind here I \[am\].about.to.break \[the\].staff of.bread in Jerusalem and they.will.eat bread by weight and in anxiety and water by measure and in horror they.will.drink

*JPS 1917:* Moreover He said unto me: 'Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment;

[Ezekiel 12:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.19/#tree)

וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶל־עַ֣ם הָאָ֡רֶץ כֹּֽה־אָמַר֩ אֲדֹנָ֨י יְהוִ֜ה לְיוֹשְׁבֵ֤י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ אֶל־אַדְמַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַחְמָם֙ בִּדְאָגָ֣ה יֹאכֵ֔לוּ וּמֵֽימֵיהֶ֖ם בְּשִׁמָּמ֣וֹן יִשְׁתּ֑וּ לְמַ֜עַן תֵּשַׁ֤ם אַרְצָהּ֙ מִמְּלֹאָ֔הּ מֵחֲמַ֖ס כָּֽל־הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say to the.people of the.land thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh of the.inhabitants of.Jerusalem concerning the.land of.Israel food their in anxiety they.will.eat and water their in horror they.will.drink so.that it.may.be.desolate land its from fullness its from the.violence of.all the inhabitants in it

*JPS 1917:* and say unto the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with appalment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8078.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8078/): 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).