Horror
שַׁמָּהStrong’s H8047shammah (sham-mah)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shammah is the Hebrew word usually translated “waste”, “into a waste” and “horror”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.”
Meaning
- Waste, horror, appalmenta waste (of land, city, etc) · appalment, horror
How it's translated
- a waste 11
- into a waste 10
- a horror 7
- into a horror 3
- desolation 2
- desolations 1
- an atrocious event 1
- and into a waste 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 24
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
- 2 Kings 22:19Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
- 2 Chronicles 30:7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
- Psalms 46:8Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
- Psalms 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
All 39 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁמָּה shammah · horror
: destroyed/waste 1) waste, horror, appalment 1a) a waste (of land, city, etc) 1b) appalment, horror Also means: sham.mah (שַׁמָּה ": appalled" H8047H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “horror” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOR'ROR, noun
[Latin from horreo, to shake or shiver, or to set up the bristles, to be rough.]
- A shaking, shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever.
- An excessive degree of fear, or a painful emotion which makes a person tremble; terror; a shuddering with fear; but appropriately, terror or a sensation approaching it, accompanied with hatred or detestation. horror is often a passion compounded of fear and hatred or disgust.“A horror of great darkness fell on Abram” Genesis 15:12“Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law” Psalms 119:53
- That which may excite horror or dread; gloom; dreariness.
- Dreadful thoughts.
All definitions
- Distressing scenes; as the horrors of war or famine.
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.