King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8077
Transliteration: shemamah or shimamah
Phonetic Spelling: (shem-aw-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: devastation, waste
Meaning: devastation, astonishment
Word Summary
shemamah or shimamah: devastation, waste
Original Word: שְׁמָמָהTransliteration: shemamah or shimamah
Phonetic Spelling: (shem-aw-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: devastation, waste
Meaning: devastation, astonishment
Strong's Concordance
laid, most desolate waste Or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}; feminine of shamem; devastation; figuratively, astonishment -- (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste.
see HEBREW shamem
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8077. shemamah
or shimamah שְׁמָמָה55 noun feminine a devastation, waste; — absolute ׳שׁ Exodus 23:29 +; plural construct שִׁמְמוֺת Jeremiah 51:26 +; — waste, usually of land, city, house, etc., Exodus 23:29 (E), Isaiah 1:7 (probably strike out, with words following StuJP Th. 1877, 714 FBJBL (1890), 84), Leviticus 26:33 (H), Jeremiah 4:27 14t. Jeremiah ("" ונו ׳אָדָם מֵאֵין 32:43, ישֵׁב מֵאֵין 34:22), Ezekiel 6:14 18t. Ezekiel (35:7 a read וּמְשַׁמָּה שְׁמָמָה for וּשְׁמָמָה ִשׁמְמָה ᵑ0, so Hi Co Toy Krae and others) +; of prince, שׁ ׳יִלְבַּשׁ 7:27; of idols Micah 1:7; ושׁ שַׁמָּה ׳כּוֺם Ezekiel 23:33. — 35:12 see שׁמם
Qal.
ִשׁמְמָה Ezekiel 35:7 see foregoing.