{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H8077",
  "lemma": "שְׁמָמָה",
  "transliteration": "shᵉmâmâh",
  "definition": "devastation; figuratively, astonishment",
  "kjv": "(laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.",
  "occurrences": 58,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שְׁמָמָה 55 n.f. a devastation, waste",
    "שִׁמָמָה",
    "שִׁמָמָה v. foregoing [v.ea.ac]"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:29",
      "text": "I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 26:33",
      "text": "I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:28",
      "text": "So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 1:7",
      "text": "Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 6:11",
      "text": "Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/6?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 17:9",
      "text": "In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/17?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 62:4",
      "text": "You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/62?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 64:9",
      "text": "Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/64?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 4:27",
      "text": "For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 6:8",
      "text": "Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/6?v=8"
    }
  ],
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