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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Desolation

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

46exact KJV occurrences 41Old Testament 5New Testament 19books containing the word 11mapped Strong's IDs 46occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

Luke 21:20

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where desolation appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

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
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8074
שָׁמֵם

shâmêm · shaw-mame'

3 times translated as this KJV form93 total Strong's occurrences

v

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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HebrewH4875
מְשׁוֹאָה

mᵉshôwʼâh · meh-o-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

(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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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7 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Zephaniah 1:13
H8077

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

Zephaniah 1:15
H4875

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Zephaniah 2:4
H8077

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Zephaniah 2:9
H8077

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Zephaniah 2:13
H8077

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Zephaniah 2:14
H2721

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Zephaniah 2:15
H8047

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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