Occurrences
Shammâh occurs 39 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (1), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Psalms (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (24), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1), Joel (1), Micah (1), Zephaniah (1), Zechariah (1)
- Deuteronomy 28:37 — And thou shalt become an astonishment (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה), a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
- 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 (לְשַׁמָּה֙) and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 — Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה), and to hissing, as ye see with your 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה), as ye see.
- Psalms 46:8 — Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations (שַׁמּ֣וֹת) he hath made in the earth.
- Psalms 73:19 — How are they brought into desolation (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה), as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Isaiah 5:9 — In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה), even great and fair, without inhabitant.
- Isaiah 13:9 — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה): and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
- Isaiah 24:12 — In the city is left desolation (שַׁמָּ֑ה), and the gate is smitten with destruction.
- Jeremiah 2:15 — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה): his cities are burned 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה); and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 5:30 — A wonderful (שַׁמָּה֙) and horrible thing is committed in the land;
- Jeremiah 8:21 — For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment (שַׁמָּ֖ה) hath taken hold on me.
- Jeremiah 18:16 — To make their land desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֖ה), and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- Jeremiah 19:8 — And I will make this city desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֖ה), and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
- 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה), and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 25:11 — And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment (לְשַׁמָּ֑ה); and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֛ה), an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
- Jeremiah 25:38 — He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה) because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
- 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 (וּלְשַׁמָּה֙), and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven 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 (וּלְשַׁמָּה֙), and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
- 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה), and a curse, and a 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 (וּלְשַׁמָּ֧ה), and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
- Jeremiah 46:19 — O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה) and desolate without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 48:9 — Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה), without any to dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 49:13 — For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation (לְשַׁמָּ֧ה), a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
- Jeremiah 49:17 — Also Edom shall be a desolation (לְשַׁמָּ֑ה): every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- Jeremiah 50:3 — For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה), and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
- Jeremiah 50:23 — How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation (לְשַׁמָּ֛ה) 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֖ה) without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:37 — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment (שַׁמָּ֥ה), and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:41 — How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment (לְשַׁמָּ֛ה) among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:43 — Her cities are a desolation (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה), a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
- Ezekiel 23:33 — Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment (שַׁמָּ֣ה) and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
- Hosea 5:9 — Ephraim shall be desolate (לְשַׁמָּ֣ה) in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
- Joel 1:7 — He hath laid my vine waste (לְשַׁמָּ֔ה), and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
- 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֗ה), and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
- 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 (לְשַׁמָּ֗ה), a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
- 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 (לְשַׁמָּֽה).