# שָׁמֵם (shamem)

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

Strong’s H8074. 80 Old Testament occurrences.

to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)

King James 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.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shamem-h8074

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 26:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/22) — I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your…
- [Leviticus 26:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/31) — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- [Leviticus 26:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/32) — And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
- [Leviticus 26:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/34) — Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and e…
- [Leviticus 26:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/35) — As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
- [Leviticus 26:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/43) — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the puni…
- [Numbers 21:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/30) — We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
- [1 Samuel 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/5/6) — But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts ther…
- [1 Kings 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/8) — And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD d…
- [2 Chronicles 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/21) — And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus…
- [2 Chronicles 36:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/21) — To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept…
- [Ezra 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/3) — And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
- [Ezra 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/4) — Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been…
- [Job 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/7) — But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
- [Job 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/8) — Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
- [Job 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/20) — They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
- [Job 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/5) — Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- [Psalms 40:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/15) — Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
- [Psalms 69:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/25) — Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
- [Psalms 79:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/7) — For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
- [Psalms 143:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/143/4) — Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/16) — Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
- [Isaiah 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/8) — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- [Isaiah 49:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/8) — Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and g…
- [Isaiah 49:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/19) — For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they…
- [Isaiah 52:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/52/14) — As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
- [Isaiah 54:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/1) — Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the…
- [Isaiah 54:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/3) — For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be i…
- [Isaiah 59:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/16) — And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteo…
- [Isaiah 61:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/4) — And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of…
- [Isaiah 63:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/5) — And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; a…
- [Jeremiah 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/12) — Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
- [Jeremiah 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/9) — And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the pries…
- [Jeremiah 10:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/25) — Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and d…
- [Jeremiah 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/11) — They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- [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 33:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/10) — Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the ci…
- [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 49:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/20) — Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of…
- [Jeremiah 50:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/13) — Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be aston…
- [Jeremiah 50:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/45) — Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of…
- [Lamentations 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/4) — The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted,…
- [Lamentations 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/16) — For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my c…
- [Lamentations 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/5) — They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
- [Lamentations 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/18) — Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- [Ezekiel 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/15) — Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished…
- [Ezekiel 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/17) — That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
- [Ezekiel 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/4) — And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
- [Ezekiel 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/8) — And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye…
- [Ezekiel 20:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/26) — And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them deso…
- [Ezekiel 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/3) — And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it…
- [Ezekiel 26:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/16) — Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they sh…
- [Ezekiel 27:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/35) — All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their counten…
- [Ezekiel 28:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/19) — All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
- [Ezekiel 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/12) — And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid w…
- [Ezekiel 30:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/7) — And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are was…
- [Ezekiel 30:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/12) — And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by…
- [Ezekiel 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/14) — And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
- [Ezekiel 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/10) — Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them;…
- [Ezekiel 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/15) — When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them t…
- [Ezekiel 33:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/28) — For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none s…
- [Ezekiel 35:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/12) — And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, s…
- [Ezekiel 35:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/15) — As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O…
- [Ezekiel 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/3) — Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might…
- [Ezekiel 36:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/34) — And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
- [Ezekiel 36:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/35) — And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become…
- [Ezekiel 36:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/36) — Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the…
- [Daniel 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/13) — Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the da…
- [Daniel 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/27) — And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but…
- [Daniel 9:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/26) — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destro…
- [Daniel 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/27) — And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cea…
- [Daniel 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/31) — And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall…
- [Daniel 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/12/11) — And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand…
- [Hosea 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/12) — And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make t…
- [Joel 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/17) — The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- [Amos 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/9) — And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jer…
- [Amos 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/14) — And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant…
- [Micah 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/13) — Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
- [Zephaniah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/6) — I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so tha…