Strong’s H8077 · Hebrew
שְׁמָמָה
shᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
Origin or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of שָׁמֵם (H8076);
Meaning devastation; figuratively, astonishment
In the King James Version (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.
In 53 verses of the King James Version
51–53 of 53
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
- Zephaniah 2:13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- Malachi 1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.