Devastation
מְשַׁמָּהStrong’s H4923meshammah (me-sham-mah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meshammah is the Hebrew word usually translated “waste”, “wastes” and “horror”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.”
Meaning
- Devastation, horrordevastation, waste · horror
How it's translated
- and a waste 4
- wastes 2
- and a horror 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 48:34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
- Ezekiel 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 6:14So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 33:28For 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 shall pass through.
- Ezekiel 33:29Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
- Ezekiel 35:3And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
Hebrew dictionary
מְשַׁמָּה meshammah · devastation
1) devastation, horror 1a) devastation, waste 1b) horror
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “devastation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEVASTATION, noun
[Latin]
- Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural productions which are necessary or useful to man; havock; as by armies, fire, flood, etc.
- IN law, waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor, or administrator.
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.