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Strong's H8077 שְׁמָמָה (shemamah)

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

Strong's Number H8077
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 10

Strong's H8077 Quick Answer

Strong's H8077 שְׁמָמָה שִׁמָמָה (shmamah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shmamah (shem-aw-maw') (or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}) n-f. 1. devastation 2. (figuratively) astonishment It has 53 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include desolate, laid, most, and astonishment. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shmamah (shem-aw-maw') (or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}) n-f. 1. devastation 2. (figuratively) astonishment
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
10 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
desolate, laid, most, and astonishment

Meaning and Definition

shmamah (shem-aw-maw') (or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}) n-f. 1. devastation 2. (figuratively) astonishment [feminine of H8076] KJV: (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste. Root(s): H8076

Original Word
שְׁמָמָה שִׁמָמָה
Transliteration
shmamah
Derivation
First root strongs: 8076
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8077. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H8077 Is Translated

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

desolate Exodus 23:29 33× laid Ezekiel 12:20 most Ezekiel 33:28 astonishment Ezekiel 23:33

How Strong's H8077 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 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8077 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 H8077 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 23:29 KJV

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

Leviticus 26:33 KJV

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Joshua 8:28 KJV

And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8077.

Exodus 23:29 Old Testament, KJV
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Leviticus 26:33 Old Testament, KJV
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Joshua 8:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
Isaiah 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
Isaiah 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Isaiah 62:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Isaiah 64:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 4:27 Old Testament, KJV
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah 6:8 Old Testament, KJV
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 10:22 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
Jeremiah 12:10 Old Testament, KJV
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah 12:11 Old Testament, KJV
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah 25:12 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 32:43 Old Testament, KJV
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 34:22 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 44:6 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
Jeremiah 49:2 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
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 51:26 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:62 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Ezekiel 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:27 Old Testament, KJV
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 12:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Ezekiel 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
Ezekiel 15:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
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.
Ezekiel 29:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
Ezekiel 29:10 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
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 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 33:29 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel 35:3 Old Testament, KJV
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
Ezekiel 35:4 Old Testament, KJV
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 35:7 Old Testament, KJV
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
Ezekiel 35:9 Old Testament, KJV
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 35:14 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
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 36:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Joel 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Joel 2:20 Old Testament, KJV
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Joel 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Micah 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Zephaniah 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Zephaniah 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Zephaniah 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
Malachi 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8077, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 15 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 20 usages, Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 4 usages, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8077 FAQ

What does shemamah (שְׁמָמָה) mean?

Shemamah (Strong's H8077) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "waste". shmamah (shem-aw-maw') (or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}) n-f. 1. devastation 2. (figuratively) astonishment

How many times is shemamah (שְׁמָמָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H8077 across 10 books.

Where can I study shemamah (שְׁמָמָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8077 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shemamah (שְׁמָמָה)?

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