Hebrew word study

שָׁמֵםshâmêm — to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or…

Pronounced “shaw-mame'”

to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)

Translated in the King James as: 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.

Appears 86 times in Scripture

Origin: a primitive root;

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