Usually translated as
desolate, waste, desolation, make amazed, astonishment, be destitute, destroy, be astonied, astonish, wonder
Occurrences
Shâmêm occurs 87 times in 83 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (6), Numbers (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Job (4), Psalms (4), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (9), Jeremiah (11), Lamentations (6), Ezekiel (22), Daniel (7), Hosea (1), Joel (1), Amos (2), Micah (1), Zephaniah (1), Zechariah (1)
- Leviticus 26:22 — I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate (וְנָשַׁ֖מּוּ).
- Leviticus 26:31 — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation (וַהֲשִׁמּוֹתִ֖י), and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- Leviticus 26:32 — And I will bring the land into desolation (וְשָֽׁמְמ֤וּ): and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:32 — And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished (וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֥י) at it.
- Leviticus 26:34 — Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate (הֳשַׁמָּ֔ה), and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:35 — As long as it lieth desolate (הָשַּׁמָּ֖ה) it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
- Leviticus 26:43 — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate (בָּהְשַׁמָּה֙) without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Numbers 21:30 — We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste (וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים) even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 — But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed (וַיְשִׁמֵּ֑ם) them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
- 2 Samuel 13:20 — And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.
- 1 Kings 9:8 — And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished (יִשֹּׁ֣ם), and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 — And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment (יִשֹּׁ֑ם) to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 — To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate (הָשַּׁמָּה֙) she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
- Job 16:7 — But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate (הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ) all my company.
- Job 17:8 — Upright men shall (יָשֹׁ֣מּוּ) be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
- Job 18:20 — They that come after him shall (נָשַׁ֣מּוּ) be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
- Job 21:5 — Mark me, and be astonished (וְהָשַׁ֑מּוּ), and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Psalms 40:15 — Let them be desolate (יָ֭שֹׁמּוּ) for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
- Psalms 69:25 — Let their habitation be desolate (נְשַׁמָּ֑ה); and let none dwell in their tents.
- Psalms 79:7 — For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste (הֵשַֽׁמּוּ) his dwelling place.
- Psalms 143:4 — Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate (יִשְׁתּוֹמֵ֥ם).
- Ecclesiastes 7:16 — Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself (תִּשּׁוֹמֵֽם)?
- Isaiah 33:8 — The highways lie waste (נָשַׁ֣מּוּ), the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- Isaiah 49:8 — Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate (שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת) heritages;
- Isaiah 49:19 — For thy waste and thy desolate places (וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ), and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
- Isaiah 52:14 — As many were (שָׁמְמ֤וּ) astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
- Isaiah 54:1 — Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate (שׁוֹמֵמָ֛ה) than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
- Isaiah 54:3 — For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate (נְשַׁמּ֖וֹת) cities to be inhabited.
- Isaiah 59:16 — And he saw that there was no man, and wondered (וַיִּשְׁתּוֹמֵ֖ם) that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
- Isaiah 61:4 — And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations (שֹׁמְמ֖וֹת), and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
- Isaiah 61:4 — And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations (שֹׁמְמ֥וֹת) of many generations.
- Isaiah 63:5 — And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered (וְאֶשְׁתּוֹמֵ֖ם) that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
- Jeremiah 2:12 — Be astonished (שֹׁ֥מּוּ), O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 4:9 — And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished (וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙), and the prophets shall wonder.
- Jeremiah 10:25 — Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate (הֵשַֽׁמּוּ).
- Jeremiah 12:11 — They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate (נָשַׁ֙מָּה֙), because no man layeth it to heart.
- Jeremiah 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished (יִשֹּׁ֖ם), and wag his head.
- Jeremiah 19:8 — And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished (יִשֹּׁ֥ם) and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
- Jeremiah 33:10 — Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate (הַֽנְשַׁמּ֗וֹת), without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
- Jeremiah 49:17 — Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished (יִשֹּׁ֥ם), and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- Jeremiah 49:20 — Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate (יַשִּׁ֛ים) with them.
- Jeremiah 50:13 — 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 (יִשֹּׁ֥ם), and hiss at all her plagues.
- Jeremiah 50:45 — Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate (יַשִּׁ֛ים) with them.
- Lamentations 1:4 — The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate (שֽׁוֹמֵמִ֔ין): her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 1:13 — From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Lamentations 1:16 — For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate (שֽׁוֹמֵמִ֔ים), because the enemy prevailed.
- Lamentations 3:11 — He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
- Lamentations 4:5 — They that did feed delicately are desolate (נָשַׁ֖מּוּ) in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
- Lamentations 5:18 — Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate (שֶׁשָּׁמֵ֔ם), the foxes walk upon it.
- Ezekiel 3:15 — Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished (מַשְׁמִ֥ים) among them seven days.