# H8074 שָׁמֵם

שָׁמֵם (shâmêm), Strong’s H8074: 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)…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=32) — I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.
- [Leviticus 26:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/9?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=8) — The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t…