שַׁמָּה
šammâ
waste
Strong's H8047NounHebrewTWOT 2409d

שַׁמָּה (šammâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning waste. It appears 40 times in 12 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H8047).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2409d)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2409d)waste, appalment; ruin, consternation; astonishment, desolate, desolation, wonderful thing
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שַׁמָּה noun, feminine: waste, appalment

Strong's H8047 שַׁמָּה: ruin; by implication, consternation
KJV:astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2409: שָׁמֵם šāmēm — be desolated, appalled; awestruck; appalling, causing horror; devastate, ravage, appal, shewing horror; all the days of, being desolate; astounded, cause oneself desolation, ruin; stun, grow numb, stupefy; make amazed, be astonied…

See it in Scripture

2 Kings 22:192 Chronicles 29:8Psalms 73:19

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