# H8077 שְׁמָמָה

שְׁמָמָה (shᵉmâmâh), Strong’s H8077: devastation; figuratively, astonishment KJV: (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.. Occurs 58 times.

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*shᵉmâmâh* — devastation; figuratively, astonishment

KJV: (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.

Occurs 58 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שְׁמָמָה 55 n.f. a devastation, waste
- שִׁמָמָה
- שִׁמָמָה v. foregoing [v.ea.ac]

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 23:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=29) — I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field…
- [Leviticus 26:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=33) — I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your…
- [Joshua 8:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=28) — So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
- [Isaiah 1:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=7) — Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is…
- [Isaiah 6:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/6?v=11) — Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land…
- [Isaiah 17:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/17?v=9) — In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were…
- [Isaiah 62:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/62?v=4) — You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called…
- [Isaiah 64:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/64?v=9) — Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- [Jeremiah 4:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=27) — For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
- [Jeremiah 6:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/6?v=8) — Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”