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H8074 · שָׁמֵם

shâmêm · shaw-mame' · desolate, astonished, waste

H8074 (shâmêm, pronounced shaw-mame') is the Hebrew word שָׁמֵם in Strong’s dictionary: to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense). It appears 86 times in 81 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).

Strong’s entry

Original word
שָׁמֵם (Hebrew)
Transliteration
shâmêm
Pronunciation
shaw-mame'
Derivation
a primitive root;
Definition
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Rendered in the KJV
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.

In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)

86 occurrences in 81 verses.

How the BSB renders it

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Leviticus 6 · Numbers 1 · 1 Samuel 1 · 1 Kings 1 · 2 Chronicles 2 · Ezra 2 · Job 4 · Psalms 4 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Isaiah 9 · Jeremiah 11 · Lamentations 4 · Ezekiel 21 · Daniel 7 · Hosea 1 · Joel 1 · Amos 2 · Micah 1 · Zephaniah 1 · Zechariah 1

First 30 of 81 verses

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