# שַׁמָּה (shamah)

Israeli respelling: sha-mah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8047. 39 Old Testament occurrences.

ruin; by implication, consternation

King James renderings: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shamah-h8047

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 28:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/37) — And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
- [2 Kings 22:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/22/19) — Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and agai…
- [2 Chronicles 29:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/8) — Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye…
- [2 Chronicles 30:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/7) — And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up…
- [Psalms 46:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/46/8) — Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
- [Psalms 73:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/19) — How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- [Isaiah 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/9) — In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
- [Isaiah 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/9) — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners ther…
- [Isaiah 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/12) — In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
- [Jeremiah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/15) — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
- [Jeremiah 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/7) — The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land des…
- [Jeremiah 5:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/30) — A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
- [Jeremiah 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/21) — For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
- [Jeremiah 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/16) — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- [Jeremiah 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/8) — And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues…
- [Jeremiah 25:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/9) — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will br…
- [Jeremiah 25:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/11) — And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- [Jeremiah 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/18) — To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an…
- [Jeremiah 25:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/38) — He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce…
- [Jeremiah 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/18) — And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms…
- [Jeremiah 42:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/42/18) — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so…
- [Jeremiah 44:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/12) — And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consum…
- [Jeremiah 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/22) — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefo…
- [Jeremiah 46:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/19) — O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
- [Jeremiah 48:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/9) — Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
- [Jeremiah 49:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/13) — For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities the…
- [Jeremiah 49:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/17) — Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- [Jeremiah 50:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/3) — For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall rem…
- [Jeremiah 50:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/23) — How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- [Jeremiah 51:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/29) — And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a deso…
- [Jeremiah 51:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/37) — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- [Jeremiah 51:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/41) — How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- [Jeremiah 51:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/43) — Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
- [Ezekiel 23:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/33) — Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
- [Hosea 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/9) — Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
- [Joel 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/7) — He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
- [Micah 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/16) — For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolat…
- [Zephaniah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/15) — This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation…
- [Zechariah 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/14) — But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed t…