Devastation
שְׁמָמָהStrong’s H8077shemamah (she-ma-mah)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shemamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “desolation”, “waste” and “desolations of”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.”
Meaning
- Devastation, waste, desolation
- Devastation, waste, desolation
How it's translated
- a desolation 32
- a waste 7
- desolation 7
- and desolation 3
- desolations of 2
- desolate 1
- into desolations of 1
- wastes of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 20
- Jeremiah 15
- Isaiah 5
- Zephaniah 4
- Joel 3
- Micah 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Joshua 8:28And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
- Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
- Isaiah 17:9In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
- Isaiah 62:4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁמָמָה shemamah · devastation
devastation, waste, desolation Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)
שִֽׁמְמָה shimemah · desolation
devastation, waste, desolation Another spelling of she.ma.mah (שְׁמָמָה "devastation" H8077A)
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.