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H8077Hebrew

שְׁמָמָה שִׁמָמָה

Definition and meaning

shmamah (shem-aw-maw') (or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}) n-f. 1. devastation 2. (figuratively) astonishment [feminine of H8076] KJV: (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste. Root(s): H8076

Tagged KJV passages

54 matching verses - 58.0 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.

Micah 7:13

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Matched English: desolateZephaniah 1:13

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

Matched English: desolationZephaniah 2:4

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Matched English: desolationZephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Matched English: desolationZephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Matched English: desolationMalachi 1:3

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Matched English: waste