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Ezekiel 35:9
“I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שְׁמָמָהshᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
H8077 · Hebrew
H8077 · Hebrew
- Definition
- devastation; figuratively, astonishment
- Derivation
- or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of H8076 (שָׁמֵם);
- KJV renderings
- (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.
- Grammar
- שִֽׁמְמ֤וֹת — common noun, feminine, plural, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 58 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 23:29Leviticus 26:33Joshua 8:28Isaiah 1:7Isaiah 1:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שְׁמָמָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.