Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
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Desolation
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Luke 21:20
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
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12 occurrences in 12 verses.
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Leviticus
22 verses
Joshua
11 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Isaiah
66 verses
Jeremiah
1212 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Zephaniah
77 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
22 verses
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שְׁמָמָה
shᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
12 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
Strong's KJV usage: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 8:28Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:13
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shammâh · sham-maw'
11 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
ruin; by implication, consternation
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 22:19Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:15
Open full H8047 profile →חׇרְבָּה
chorbâh · khor-baw'
5 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
Strong's KJV usage: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 22:5Strong's last: Jeremiah 44:22
Open full H2723 profile →שׁוֹא
shôwʼ · sho
5 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a tempest; by implication, devastation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:14Strong's last: Isaiah 47:11
Open full H7722 profile →ἐρήμωσις
erḗmōsis · er-ay'-mo-sis
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
despoliation
Strong's KJV usage: :--desolation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:15Strong's last: Luke 21:20
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shâmêm · shaw-mame'
3 times translated as this KJV form93 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:31Strong's last: Daniel 8:13
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erēmóō · er-ay-mo'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to lay waste (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:25Strong's last: Luke 11:17
Open full G2049 profile →שֹׁד
shôd · shode
2 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
violence, ravage
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, destruction, oppression, robbery, spoil(-ed, -er, -ing), wasting.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 51:19Strong's last: Hosea 12:1
Open full H7701 profile →חֹרֶב
chôreb · kho'-reb
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
drought or desolation
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, drought, dry, heat, × utterly, waste.
Strong's first: Zephaniah 2:14Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:14
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mᵉshôwʼâh · meh-o-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zephaniah 1:15Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:15
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shêʼth · shayth
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
devastation
Strong's KJV usage: desolation.
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:47Strong's last: Lamentations 3:47
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H2723
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
H2723
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
H2723
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
H8077
Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
H2723
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
H2723
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
H8047
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
H8047
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
H8077
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
H8047
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
H8047
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
H8047
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
English meaning and historical usage.
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desolation
DESOLATION, noun
1. The act of desolating destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; destruction; ruin; waste.
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation Matthew 12:25.
2. A place deprived of inhabitants, or otherwise wasted, ravaged and ruined.
How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations. Jeremiah 50:23.
3. A desolate state; gloominess; sadness; destitution.
The abomination of desolation Roman armies which ravaged and destroyed Jerusalem. Matthew 24:15.
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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