Shammah שַׁמָּה

Shammah (Hebrew שַׁמָּה, Strong's H8047) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “horror: destroyed”. It occurs 39 times in 39 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H8047G: horror: destroyed

H8047H: horror: appalled

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Shammah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 28:37
  And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 22:19
  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.because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 29:8
  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.Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.
• 2 Chronicles 30:7
  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.Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

Psalms

• Psalm 46:8
  Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.
• Psalm 73:19
  How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Isaiah

• Isaiah 5:9
  In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
• Isaiah 13:9
  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.Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
• Isaiah 24:12
  In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:15
  The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 4:7
  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.A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
• Jeremiah 5:30
  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
• Jeremiah 8:21
  For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
• Jeremiah 18:16
  To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
• Jeremiah 19:8
  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.I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
• Jeremiah 25:9
  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.behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
• Jeremiah 25:11
  And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
• Jeremiah 25:18
  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;to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
• Jeremiah 25:38
  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.He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 29:18
  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:I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
• Jeremiah 42:18
  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.For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
• Jeremiah 44:12
  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.And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
• Jeremiah 44:22
  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.So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
• Jeremiah 46:19
  O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
• Jeremiah 48:9
  Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
• Jeremiah 49:13
  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.For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
• Jeremiah 49:17
  Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
• Jeremiah 50:3
  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.For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
• Jeremiah 50:23
  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
• Jeremiah 51:29
  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.The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 51:37
  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 51:41
  How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
• Jeremiah 51:43
  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.Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 23:33
  Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

Hosea

• Hosea 5:9
  Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

Joel

• Joel 1:7
  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.It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

Micah

• Micah 6:16
  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.You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 2:15
  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.This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 7:14
  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.But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).