שְׁמָמָה

she.ma.mahdevastation
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine57 occurrences10 books53 verses
This word comes from the name of Jerusalem.

Definition

or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of H8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment
Traditional renderings: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.

Glossary entries

Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

57 total
  1. Micah 1:7שְׁמָמָ֑ה
    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
  2. Micah 7:13לִשְׁמָמָ֖ה · desolate
    Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
  3. Zephaniah 1:13לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה · laid waste
    Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
  4. Zephaniah 2:4לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה · left in ruins
    For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
  5. Zephaniah 2:9וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה · wasteland
    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
  6. Zephaniah 2:13לִשְׁמָמָ֔ה · a desolation
    And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
  7. Malachi 1:3שְׁמָמָ֔ה · a wasteland
    …but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”