Lexical Definition

‎שַׁמָּה‎ shammâh (sham-maw') horror: destroyed ^H:N-F
from ‎שָׁמֵם‎

astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

• ruin
• by implication, consternation

1) waste, horror, appalment
1a) a waste (of land, city, etc)
1b) appalment, horror

See Greek: αἴνιγμα · ἀφανισμός · ἔκστασις · τέρας

Extended Information

• : destroyed/waste
• Also means: sham.mah (‎ש‎ַׁ‎מ‎ָּ‎ה‎ ": appalled" שַׁמָּה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎שַׁמָּה‎ noun feminine waste, appalment (24 t. Jeremiah); — absolute ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ Jer 5:30 +; plural absolute ‎שַׁמּוֺת‎ Ps 46:9* —

1. a waste, of land, city, etc., Hos 5:9; Isa 5:9; Isa 13:9; Isa 24:12; Zech 7:14; Jer 2:15; Jer 4:7; Jer 18:16; Jer 19:8; Jer 46:19; Jer 48:9; Jer 50:3; Jer 51:29; Jer 51:43, vine Joel 1:7 person Ps 73:19 ‎וּשְׁמָמָה‎ ‎׳‎‎כּוֺם שׁ‎ Ezek 23:33.

2. appalment, horror, i.e. occasion of it; of people land etc., Deut 28:37; 2Kgs 22:19; Mic 6:16; Zeph 2:15; Jer 5:30; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:11; Jer 25:18; Jer 25:38; Jer 29:18; Jer 44:12; Jer 44:22; Jer 49:13; Jer 49:17; Jer 50:23; Jer 51:37; Jer 51:41; 2Chr 29:8; 2Chr 30:7 ‎׳‎‎הֶחֱזִָק֑תְנִ‎ ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ Jer 8:21.

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