שַׁמָּה
sham.mah (H8047G)
horror: destroyed
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The Hebrew word שַׁמָּה (shammah) conveys a sense of destruction and horror. Its root meaning, "destroyed," implies a state of utter annihilation or chaos. This word is used to describe a place or a time when life has been severely impacted, often resulting in death. In the Hebrew Bible, שַׁמָּה is used 22 times, indicating its significance in various contexts. It is associated with death, decay, and disaster, highlighting its strong semantic connection to the domain of life and death. This word's usage encompasses physical destruction, such as the aftermath of war or natural disasters, as well as metaphorical destruction, like the decay of moral integrity. The repetition of שַׁמָּה throughout the Hebrew Bible underscores its importance as a concept. Its range of usage, spanning various genres and themes, highlights its role in conveying a sense of catastrophic loss, emphasizing the gravity of certain situations and the impact of divine or human actions on individuals and communities.
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because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;
He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.
For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”