שָׁמֵם
šāmēm
devastated
Strong's H8076AdjectiveHebrewTWOT 2409a

שָׁמֵם (šāmēm) is a Hebrew adjective meaning devastated. It appears 6 times in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H8076).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2409a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2409a)devastated; ruined; desolate
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שָׁמֵם adjective: devastated

Strong's H8076 שָׁמֵם: ruined
KJV:desolate.

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 Samuel 13:20Lamentations 1:13Ezekiel 36:4

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