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Strong's H8047 שַׁמָּה (shammah)

Shammah means “ruin” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H8047
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 12

Strong's H8047 Quick Answer

Strong's H8047 שַׁמָּה (shammah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shammah (sham-maw') n-f. 1. ruin 2. (by implication) consternation It has 39 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include astonishment, desolate, waste, and wonderful. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shammah (sham-maw') n-f. 1. ruin 2. (by implication) consternation
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
astonishment, desolate, waste, and wonderful

Meaning and Definition

shammah (sham-maw') n-f. 1. ruin 2. (by implication) consternation [from H8074] KJV: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing. Root(s): H8074

Original Word
שַׁמָּה
Transliteration
shammah
Derivation
Root: שׁמם First root strongs: 8074
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8047. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

horror: destroyed

Usage: : destroyed/waste 1) waste, horror, appalment 1a) a waste (of land, city, etc) 1b) appalment, horror Also means: sham.mah (שַׁמָּה ": appalled" H8047H)

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How Strong's H8047 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shammah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

astonishment Deuteronomy 28:37 13× desolate Isaiah 5:9 11× waste Jeremiah 2:15 wonderful Jeremiah 5:30

How Strong's H8047 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8047 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H8047 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 28:37 KJV

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

2 Kings 22:19 KJV

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:8 KJV

Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8047.

Deuteronomy 28:37 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
2 Kings 22:19 Old Testament, KJV
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:8 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2 Chronicles 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Psalms 46:8 Old Testament, KJV
Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
Psalms 73:19 Old Testament, KJV
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Isaiah 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah 24:12 Old Testament, KJV
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Jeremiah 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 5:30 Old Testament, KJV
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
Jeremiah 8:21 Old Testament, KJV
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Jeremiah 18:16 Old Testament, KJV
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Jeremiah 19:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah 25:9 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 25:18 Old Testament, KJV
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Jeremiah 25:38 Old Testament, KJV
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 29:18 Old Testament, KJV
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah 42:18 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Jeremiah 44:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah 44:22 Old Testament, KJV
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Jeremiah 46:19 Old Testament, KJV
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 48:9 Old Testament, KJV
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
Jeremiah 49:13 Old Testament, KJV
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Jeremiah 49:17 Old Testament, KJV
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah 50:3 Old Testament, KJV
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
Jeremiah 50:23 Old Testament, KJV
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah 51:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:37 Old Testament, KJV
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:41 Old Testament, KJV
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Jeremiah 51:43 Old Testament, KJV
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Ezekiel 23:33 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Hosea 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
Joel 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Micah 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Zephaniah 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Zechariah 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8047, grouped by book.

Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 24 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8047 FAQ

What does shammah (שַׁמָּה) mean?

Shammah (Strong's H8047) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "ruin". shammah (sham-maw') n-f. 1. ruin 2. (by implication) consternation

How many times is shammah (שַׁמָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H8047 across 12 books.

Where can I study shammah (שַׁמָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8047 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shammah (שַׁמָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as astonishment, desolate, waste, and wonderful. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.