שַׁמָּה

sham.mah

Hebrew H8047 Noun, feminine 39 occurrences in 39 verses
שַׁמָּה horror: destroyed

1. waste, horror, appalment

a. a waste (of land, city, etc)

b. appalment, horror

Also means: sham.mah (שַׁמָּה ": appalled" H8047H)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 39 verses

  1. Deuteronomy 28:37 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

  2. 2 Kings 22:19 לְשַׁמָּה֙

    because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

  3. 2 Chronicles 29:8 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.

  4. 2 Chronicles 30:7 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  5. Psalms 46:8 שַׁמּ֣וֹת

    Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.

  6. Psalms 73:19 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

  7. Isaiah 5:9 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

  8. Isaiah 13:9 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

  9. Isaiah 24:12 שַׁמָּ֑ה

    The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

  10. Jeremiah 2:15 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

  11. Jeremiah 4:7 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

  12. Jeremiah 5:30 שַׁמָּה֙

    A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.

  13. Jeremiah 8:21 שַׁמָּ֖ה

    For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

  14. Jeremiah 18:16 לְשַׁמָּ֖ה

    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

  15. Jeremiah 19:8 לְשַׁמָּ֖ה

    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

  16. Jeremiah 25:9 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

  17. Jeremiah 25:11 לְשַׁמָּ֑ה

    And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

  18. Jeremiah 25:18 לְשַׁמָּ֛ה

    to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;

  19. Jeremiah 25:38 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  20. Jeremiah 29:18 וּלְשַׁמָּה֙

    I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.

  21. Jeremiah 42:18 וּלְשַׁמָּה֙

    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

  22. Jeremiah 44:12 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.

  23. Jeremiah 44:22 וּלְשַׁמָּ֧ה

    So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

  24. Jeremiah 46:19 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

  25. Jeremiah 48:9 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.

  26. Jeremiah 49:13 לְשַׁמָּ֧ה

    For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

  27. Jeremiah 49:17 לְשַׁמָּ֑ה

    “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

  28. Jeremiah 50:3 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”

  29. Jeremiah 50:23 לְשַׁמָּ֛ה

    How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

  30. Jeremiah 51:29 לְשַׁמָּ֖ה

    The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

  31. Jeremiah 51:37 שַׁמָּ֥ה

    Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

  32. Jeremiah 51:41 לְשַׁמָּ֛ה

    How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

  33. Jeremiah 51:43 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

  34. Ezekiel 23:33 שַׁמָּ֣ה

    You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

  35. Hosea 5:9 לְשַׁמָּ֣ה

    Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

  36. Joel 1:7 לְשַׁמָּ֔ה

    It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

  37. Micah 6:16 לְשַׁמָּ֗ה

    You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

  38. Zephaniah 2:15 לְשַׁמָּ֗ה

    This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

  39. Zechariah 7:14 לְשַׁמָּֽה׃פ

    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.”

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