Be desolate
יָשַׁםStrong’s H3456yasham (ya-sham)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yasham is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be desolate”, “desolate” and “it may be desolate”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to ruin, be desolate
How it's translated
- it will be desolate 1
- they will be desolate 1
- it may be desolate 1
- and it was desolate 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Genesis 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 6:6In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
- Ezekiel 12:19And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 19:7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Hebrew dictionary
יָשַׁם yasham · be desolate
(Qal) to ruin, be desolate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “desolate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESOLATE, adjective
- Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; desert; uninhabited; denoting either stripped of inhabitants, or never having been inhabitated; as a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness.“I will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant” Jeremiah 9:11
- Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as desolate altars; desolate towers.
- Solitary; without a companion; afflicted.“Tamar remained desolate in Absaloms house” 2 Samuel 13:20
- Deserted of God; deprived of comfort.“My heart within me is desolate” Psalms 143:4
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.