Be desolate
שָׁמֵםStrong’s H8074shamem (sha-mem)
Appears in 81 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shamem is the Hebrew word usually translated “appalled”, “desolate” and “devastate”. It appears in 81 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?”
Meaning
- To be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Polel) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated · (Hithpolel)
How it's translated
- he will be appalled 6
- desolate 6
- and i will devastate 5
- and they will be appalled 4
- desolated 4
- and they will be desolate 3
- appalled 3
- made desolate 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 21
- Jeremiah 11
- Isaiah 9
- Daniel 7
- Leviticus 6
- Job 4
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:27In contextAnd I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
- Daniel 9:18In contextO my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
- Daniel 9:26In contextAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Daniel 9:27In contextAnd he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
- Daniel 11:31In contextAnd arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
- Daniel 12:11In contextAnd from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
All 81 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁמֵם shamem · be desolate
: destroyed/deserted 1) to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled 1a2) to be appalled, be awestruck 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be desolated, be made desolate 1b2) to be appalled 1c) (Polel) 1c1) to be stunned 1c2) appalling, causing horror (participle) 1c2a) horror-causer, appaller (subst) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to devastate, ravage, make desolated 1d2) to appal, show horror 1e) (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated 1f) (Hithpolel) 1f1) to cause to be desolate 1f2) to be appalled, be astounded …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “appalled” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APPALL'ED, participle passive
Depressed or disheartened with fear; reduced.
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.