שָׁמֵם

Strong’s Definition

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

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV 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.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(niphal)
• 4.(polel)
• 5.(hiphil)
• 6.(hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated
• 7.(hithpolel)

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: shâmêm; Pronunciation: shaw-mame'