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Strong's H8074 שָׁמֵם (shamem)

Shamem means “make amazed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H8074
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 84
Books 20

Strong's H8074 Quick Answer

Strong's H8074 שָׁמֵם (shamem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shamem (shaw-mame') v. 1. to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) [a primitive root] It has 84 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include make, astonished, and both. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shamem (shaw-mame') v. 1. to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) [a primitive root]
Usage
84 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
make, astonished, and both

Meaning and Definition

shamem (shaw-mame') v. 1. to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) [a primitive root] KJV: make amazed, be astonished, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

Original Word
שָׁמֵם
Transliteration
shamem
Derivation
Root: שׁמם
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8074. 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)

be desolate: destroyed

Usage: : destroyed/deserted 1) to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled 1a2) to be appalled, be awestruck 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be desolated, be made desolate 1b2) to be appalled 1c) (Polel) 1c1) to be stunned 1c2) appalling, causing horror (participle) 1c2a) horror-causer, appaller (subst) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to devastate, ravage, make desolated 1d2) to appal, show horror 1e) (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated 1f) (Hithpolel) 1f1) to cause to be

desolate 1f2) to be appalled, be astounded 1f3) to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself ruin

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How Strong's H8074 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shamem, 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.

make Leviticus 26:22 19× astonished Leviticus 26:32 12× both Daniel 8:13

How Strong's H8074 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 84 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8074 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 H8074 in the Old Testament

84 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Leviticus 26:22 KJV

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Leviticus 26:31 KJV

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

Leviticus 26:32 KJV

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Usage Excerpts

First 84 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8074.

Leviticus 26:22 Old Testament, KJV
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus 26:31 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
Leviticus 26:32 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Leviticus 26:34 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35 Old Testament, KJV
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus 26:43 Old Testament, KJV
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Numbers 21:30 Old Testament, KJV
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
1 Samuel 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
1 Kings 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
2 Chronicles 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2 Chronicles 36:21 Old Testament, KJV
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Ezra 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Ezra 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
Job 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 18:20 Old Testament, KJV
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Job 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Psalms 40:15 Old Testament, KJV
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Psalms 69:25 Old Testament, KJV
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Psalms 79:7 Old Testament, KJV
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
Psalms 143:4 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Ecclesiastes 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Isaiah 33:8 Old Testament, KJV
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
Isaiah 49:8 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
Isaiah 49:19 Old Testament, KJV
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah 52:14 Old Testament, KJV
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isaiah 54:1 Old Testament, KJV
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 54:3 Old Testament, KJV
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Isaiah 59:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isaiah 61:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Isaiah 63:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Jeremiah 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
Jeremiah 10:25 Old Testament, KJV
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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 33:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
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 49:20 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
Jeremiah 50:13 Old Testament, KJV
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 50:45 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
Lamentations 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lamentations 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations 3:11 Old Testament, KJV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Ezekiel 3:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
Ezekiel 4:17 Old Testament, KJV
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel 6:4 Old Testament, KJV
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel 14:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 25:3 Old Testament, KJV
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
Ezekiel 26:16 Old Testament, KJV
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Ezekiel 27:35 Old Testament, KJV
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
Ezekiel 28:19 Old Testament, KJV
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Ezekiel 29:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
Ezekiel 30:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 30:14 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ezekiel 32:10 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
Ezekiel 32:15 Old Testament, KJV
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 33:28 Old Testament, KJV
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel 35:12 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Ezekiel 35:15 Old Testament, KJV
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 36:3 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Ezekiel 36:4 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Ezekiel 36:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Ezekiel 36:35 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Ezekiel 36:36 Old Testament, KJV
Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
Daniel 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Daniel 8:27 Old Testament, KJV
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Daniel 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Daniel 9:26 Old Testament, KJV
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 11:31 Old Testament, KJV
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Daniel 12:11 Old Testament, KJV
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Hosea 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Joel 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Amos 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Amos 9:14 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Micah 6:13 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Zephaniah 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
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 H8074, grouped by book.

Leviticus 6 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 23 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 7 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8074 FAQ

What does shamem (שָׁמֵם) mean?

Shamem (Strong's H8074) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "make amazed". shamem (shaw-mame') v. 1. to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense) [a primitive root]

How many times is shamem (שָׁמֵם) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 84 linked usages for Strong's H8074 across 20 books.

Where can I study shamem (שָׁמֵם) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8074 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shamem (שָׁמֵם)?

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