שָׁמֵם
shâmêm · shaw-mame'
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
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
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁמֵם 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
86 occurrences · 86 OT · 0 NT · 75 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- desolate5 · 11%
- shall be desolate4 · 9%
- shall be astonished4 · 9%
- are desolate4 · 9%
- that are desolate3 · 7%
- astonied2 · 4%
- me desolate2 · 4%
- by it shall be astonished2 · 4%
- thereby shall be astonished2 · 4%
- desolations2 · 4%
- that maketh desolate2 · 4%
- and i will bring1 · 2%
- men shall be astonied1 · 2%
- into desolation1 · 2%
- thou hast made desolate1 · 2%
- unto desolation1 · 2%
- shall be an astonishment1 · 2%
- and he destroyed1 · 2%
- and we have laid them waste1 · 2%
- while she lieth desolate1 · 2%
- it lieth desolate1 · 2%
- she lay desolate1 · 2%
- as it lieth desolate1 · 2%
- therein shall be astonished1 · 2%
- and bring1 · 2%
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.