Devastated
שָׁמֵםStrong’s H8076shamem (sha-mem)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shamem is the Hebrew word usually translated “desolate” and “into a desolation”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.”
Meaning
- Devastated, deserted, desolate
How it's translated
- desolate 4
- a desolate 1
- into a desolation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Daniel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 13:20And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.
- Jeremiah 12:11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- Lamentations 1:13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Lamentations 3:11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
- Ezekiel 36:4Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁמֵם shamem · devastated
devastated, deserted, desolate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “devastated” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEVASTATED, participle passive
Laid waste; ravaged.
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.