שַׁמָּה
shammâh · sham-maw'
ruin; by implication, consternation
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8074 (שָׁמֵם);
ruin; by implication, consternation
- ruin
- by implication, consternation
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׁמָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
39 occurrences · 39 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- desolate6 · 16%
- and an astonishment5 · 14%
- shall be desolate2 · 5%
- waste2 · 5%
- an astonishment2 · 5%
- and thou shalt become an astonishment1 · 3%
- thereof, that they should become a desolation1 · 3%
- to astonishment1 · 3%
- to desolation1 · 3%
- what desolations1 · 3%
- how are they brought into desolation1 · 3%
- desolation1 · 3%
- a wonderful1 · 3%
- astonishment1 · 3%
- them an astonishment1 · 3%
- is desolate1 · 3%
- shall be waste1 · 3%
- thereof shall be desolate1 · 3%
- shall become a desolation1 · 3%
- shall be a desolation1 · 3%
- become a desolation1 · 3%
- a desolation1 · 3%
- become an astonishment1 · 3%
- are a desolation1 · 3%
- of astonishment1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.