שָׁמֵם (šāmēm) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning be desolated. It appears
86 times
in 19 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H8074).
Also rendered
be desolate
destroyed
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2409)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2409)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…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
שָׁמֵםverb: be desolated, appalled
Qal
1.be desolated
2.be appalled, awestruck
Niphal
1.be desolated
2.be appalled
Polel
2.transit. appalling, causing horror
Hiphil
1.devastate, ravage
2.
a.appal
b.inwardly transitive, shewing horror
Hophalall the days of (its) being desolate
Hithpolel
1.be appalled, astounded
2.cause oneself desolation, ruin
Strong's H8074שָׁמֵם: to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) KJV:make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
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.