# H8047 שַׁמָּה

שַׁמָּה (shammâh), Strong’s H8047: ruin; by implication, consternation KJV: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.. Occurs 40 times.

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*shammâh* — ruin; by implication, consternation

KJV: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Derived from [שָׁמֵם shâmêm](https://besorah.bible/word/H8074) (to stun)

Occurs 40 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שַׁמָּה n.f. waste, appalment

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 28:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=37) — You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
- [2 Kings 22:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=19) — because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place…
- [Isaiah 5:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=9) — In my ears, the LORD of Hosts says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
- [Isaiah 13:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=9) — Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy…
- [Isaiah 24:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=12) — The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
- [Jeremiah 2:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=15) — The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up…
- [Jeremiah 4:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=7) — A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to…
- [Jeremiah 5:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=30) — “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
- [Jeremiah 8:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/8?v=21) — For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
- [Jeremiah 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/18?v=16) — to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake…