Strongs Number: H8074
- Hebrew Word
- שָׁמֵם
- Transliteration
- shâmêm
- Phonetic
- shaw-mame'
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Strongs Definition
-
to stun (or intransitively grow {numb }) that {is} devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
- BDB Definition
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1. to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy
a. (Qal)
1. to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled
2. to be appalled, be awestruck
b. (Niphal)
1. to be desolated, be made desolate
2. to be appalled
c. (Polel)
1. to be stunned
2. appalling, causing horror (participle) 1c
d. horror-causer, appaller (subst)
e. (Hiphil)
1. to devastate, ravage, make desolated
2. to appal, show horror
f. (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated
g. (Hithpolel)
1. to cause to be desolate
2. to be appalled, be astounded
3. to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself ruin
- Origin
- A primitive root
- Bible Usage
- make {amazed} be {astonied} (be an) astonish ({-ment}) ({be} bring {into} {unto} {lay} {lie} make) desolate ({-ion} {places}) be {destitute} destroy ({self}) ({lay} {lie} make) {waste} wonder.