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For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Read in context →And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 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: Isaiah 61:4Strong's last: Daniel 9:26
Open full H8074 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: Ezra 9:9Strong's last: Daniel 9:2
Open full H2723 profile →shᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
Strong's KJV usage: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 25:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 35:9
Open full H8077 profile →mashshûwʼâh · mash-shoo-aw'
ruin
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, destruction.
Strong's first: Psalms 74:3Strong's last: Psalms 74:3
Open full H4876 profile →shammâh · sham-maw'
ruin; by implication, consternation
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Strong's first: Psalms 46:8Strong's last: Psalms 46:8
Open full H8047 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.
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In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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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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