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.
Traditional renderings: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Glossary entries
Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah
Where it occurs
Occurrences
57 total
- Micah 1:7שְׁמָמָ֑הAll 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.
- Micah 7:13לִשְׁמָמָ֖ה · desolateThen the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
- Zephaniah 1:13לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה · laid wasteTheir 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.
- Zephaniah 2:4לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה · left in ruinsFor Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
- Zephaniah 2:9וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה · wastelandTherefore, 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.”
- Zephaniah 2:13לִשְׁמָמָ֔ה · a desolationAnd He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- 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.”