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שָׁמֵם

sha.membe desolate: destroyedHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb86 occurrences20 books81 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Traditional renderings: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שָׁמֵם:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

86 total
  1. Ezekiel 6:4וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ · will be demolished
    Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
  2. Ezekiel 20:26אֲשִׁמֵּ֔ם · I might devastate them
    And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
  3. Ezekiel 25:3נָשַׁ֔מָּה · was laid waste
    Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
  4. Ezekiel 26:16וְשָׁמְמ֖וּ · appalled
    All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you.
  5. Ezekiel 27:35שָׁמְמ֖וּ · are appalled
    All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
  6. Ezekiel 28:19שָׁמְמ֖וּ · are appalled
    All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
  7. Ezekiel 29:12נְשַׁמּ֗וֹת · desolate
    I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
  8. Ezekiel 30:7וְנָשַׁ֕מּוּ · They will be desolate; נְשַׁמּ֑וֹת · desolate
    They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
  9. Ezekiel 30:12וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֞י · I will bring desolation
    I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  10. Ezekiel 30:14וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִי֙ · I will lay waste
    I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
  11. Ezekiel 32:10וַהֲשִׁמּוֹתִ֨י · to be appalled
    I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
  12. Ezekiel 32:15וּנְשַׁמָּ֗ה · and empty
    ‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’
  13. Ezekiel 33:28וְשָֽׁמְמ֛וּ · will become desolate
    I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
  14. Ezekiel 35:12שָׁמֵמָה · They are desolate
    Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
  15. Ezekiel 35:15שָׁמֵ֖מָה · became desolate
    As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
  16. Ezekiel 36:3שַׁמּוֹת֩ · they have made you desolate
    …therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
  17. Ezekiel 36:34הַנְּשַׁמָּ֖ה · The desolate
    The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
  18. Ezekiel 36:35הַנְּשַׁמָּ֔ה · that was desolate; וְהַֽנְשַׁמּ֥וֹת · desolate
    Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
  19. Ezekiel 36:36הַנְּשַׁמָּ֑ה · what was desolate
    Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.
  20. Daniel 8:13שֹׁמֵ֔ם · that causes desolation
    Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
  21. Daniel 8:27וָאֶשְׁתּוֹמֵ֥ם · I was confounded
    I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
  22. Daniel 9:18שֹֽׁמְמֹתֵ֔ינוּ · the desolation
    Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
  23. Daniel 9:26שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת׃ · desolations
    Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  24. Daniel 9:27מְשֹׁמֵ֔ם · that causes desolation; שֹׁמֵֽם׃פ · [him]
    And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
  25. Daniel 11:31מְשׁוֹמֵֽם׃ · of desolation
    His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
  26. Daniel 12:11שֹׁמֵ֑ם · of desolation
    And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
  27. Hosea 2:12וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֗י · I will destroy
    I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
  28. Joel 1:17נָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ · are in ruins
    The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
  29. Amos 7:9וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ · will be deserted
    The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
  30. Amos 9:14נְשַׁמּוֹת֙ · the ruined
    I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
  31. Micah 6:13הַשְׁמֵ֖ם · to ruin you
    Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
  32. Zephaniah 3:6נָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ · are destroyed
    “I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.
  33. Zechariah 7:14נָשַׁ֣מָּה · was left desolate
    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”