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שָׁמֵם

Definition and meaning

shamem (shaw-mame') v. 1. to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) [a primitive root] KJV: make amazed, be astonished, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

Tagged KJV passages

87 matching verses - 94.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

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 high ways shall be desolate.

Matched English: desolate
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.

Matched English: bring, desolation
Leviticus 26:32

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Matched English: bring, desolation, astonished
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 enjoy her sabbaths.

Matched English: desolate
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.

Matched English: desolate
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 punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

Matched English: desolate
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.

Matched English: waste
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 thereof.

Matched English: destroyed
2 Samuel 13:20

And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

Matched English: desolate
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 done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Matched English: astonished
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 unto this land, and unto this house?

Matched English: astonishment
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 sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

Matched English: desolate
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.

Matched English: astonied
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 carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

Matched English: astonied
Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Matched English: desolate
Job 17:8

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

Matched English: astonied
Job 18:20

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Matched English: astonied
Job 21:5

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Matched English: astonished
Psalms 40:15

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Matched English: desolate
Psalms 69:25

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Matched English: desolate
Psalms 79:7

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Matched English: waste
Psalms 143:4

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

Matched English: desolate
Ecclesiastes 7:16

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Matched English: destroy
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.

Matched English: waste