H8074 שָׁמֵם
shâmêm — 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…
Occurs 85 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁמֵם] vb. be desolated, appalled
- Qal
- 1 be desolated
- 2 be appalled, awestruck
- Niph.
- 1 be desolated
- 2 be appalled
- Pō‛.
- 1 I sat appalled
- 2 transit. appalling, causing horror
- Hiph.
- 1 devastate, ravage
- a appal
- b inwardly trans., shewing horror
- Hoph. all the days of (its) being desolate
- Hithpō‛.
- 1 be appalled, astounded
- 2 cause oneself desolation, ruin
Where it occurs
- Leviticus 26:22 — I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few…
- Leviticus 26:31 — I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet…
- Leviticus 26:32 — I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:34 — Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land…
- Leviticus 26:35 — As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on…
- Leviticus 26:43 — The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will…
- Numbers 21:30 — We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”
- 1 Samuel 5:6 — But the LORD’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod…
- 1 Kings 9:8 — Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has…
- Isaiah 33:8 — The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t…