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Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Read in context →And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Read in context →44 occurrences in 34 verses.
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shâmêm · shaw-mame'
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Strong's 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.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:22Strong's last: Zechariah 7:14
Open full H8074 profile →shᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
Strong's KJV usage: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Strong's first: Exodus 23:29Strong's last: Micah 7:13
Open full H8077 profile →shammâh · sham-maw'
ruin; by implication, consternation
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:9Strong's last: Zechariah 7:14
Open full H8047 profile →ʼâsham · aw-sham'
to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish
Strong's KJV usage: × certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, × greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
Strong's first: Psalms 34:21Strong's last: Joel 1:18
Open full H816 profile →yâsham · yaw-sham'
to lie waste
Strong's KJV usage: be desolate.
Strong's first: Genesis 47:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 19:7
Open full H3456 profile →érēmos · er'-ay-mos
lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 being implied)
Strong's KJV usage: :--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:38Strong's last: Acts 1:20
Open full G2048 profile →chârab · khaw-rab'
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Strong's KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:19
Open full H2717 profile →chorbâh · khor-baw'
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
Strong's KJV usage: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 7:34Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:20
Open full H2723 profile →mᵉshammâh · mesh-am-maw'
a waste or amazement
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate.
Strong's first: Isaiah 15:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 6:14
Open full H4923 profile →erēmóō · er-ay-mo'-o
to lay waste (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
Strong's first: Revelation 17:16Strong's last: Revelation 18:19
Open full G2049 profile →galmûwd · gal-mood'
sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate
Strong's KJV usage: desolate, solitary.
Strong's first: Job 15:34Strong's last: Isaiah 49:21
Open full H1565 profile →chârêb · khaw-rabe'
parched or ruined
Strong's KJV usage: desolate, dry, waste.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 33:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 33:12
Open full H2720 profile →shôwʼ · sho
a tempest; by implication, devastation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
Strong's first: Job 30:3Strong's last: Job 38:27
Open full H7722 profile →shâmêm · shaw-mame'
ruined
Strong's KJV usage: desolate.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 12:11Strong's last: Daniel 9:17
Open full H8076 profile →monóō · mon-o'-o
to isolate, i.e. bereave
Strong's KJV usage: :--be desolate.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 5:5Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:5
Open full G3443 profile →ʼashmân · ash-mawn'
a fat field
Strong's KJV usage: desolate place.
Strong's first: Isaiah 59:10Strong's last: Isaiah 59:10
Open full H820 profile →bâdâd · baw-dawd'
separate; adverb, separately
Strong's KJV usage: alone, desolate, only, solitary.
Strong's first: Isaiah 27:10Strong's last: Isaiah 27:10
Open full H910 profile →battâh · bat-taw'
desolation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate.
Strong's first: Isaiah 7:19Strong's last: Isaiah 7:19
Open full H1327 profile →yâchîyd · yaw-kheed'
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
Strong's KJV usage: darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
Strong's first: Psalms 25:16Strong's last: Psalms 25:16
Open full H3173 profile →yâtsath · yaw-tsath'
to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: burn (up), be desolate, set (on) fire (fire), kindle.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 46:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:19
Open full H3341 profile →kâchad · kaw-khad'
to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
Strong's first: Job 15:28Strong's last: Job 15:28
Open full H3582 profile →nâqâh · naw-kaw'
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
Strong's KJV usage: acquit × at all, × altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, × by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, × utterly, × wholly.
Strong's first: Isaiah 3:26Strong's last: Isaiah 3:26
Open full H5352 profile →shâʼâh · shaw-aw'
to rush; by implication, to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: be desolate, (make a) rush(-ing), (lay) waste.
Strong's first: Isaiah 6:11Strong's last: Isaiah 6:11
Open full H7582 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
148 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
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DESOLATE, adjective
1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; desert; uninhabited; denoting either stripped of inhabitants, or never having been inhabitated; as a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant. Jeremiah 9:11.
2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as desolate altars; desolate towers. Ezek. Zeph.
3. Solitary; without a companion; afflicted.
Tamar remained desolate in Absaloms house. 2 Samuel 13:20.
4. Deserted of God; deprived of comfort.
My heart within me is desolate Psalms 143:4.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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