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Jeremiah 5:30
“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שַׁמָּהshammâh · sham-maw'
H8047 · Hebrew
H8047 · Hebrew
- Definition
- ruin; by implication, consternation
- Derivation
- from H8074 (שָׁמֵם);
- KJV renderings
- astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
- Grammar
- שַׁמָּה֙ — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 40 times in the Hebrew Bible.Deuteronomy 28:372 Kings 22:192 Chronicles 29:82 Chronicles 30:7Psalms 46:9
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 שַׁמָּה 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.