meshama · desolation

What it means

meshama (מְשַׁמָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “desolation”.

A waste.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The dismay a ruin causes.
2. A laid-waste place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• horror ×5
• desolations ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Isaiah 15:6

  For the waters of Nimrim will be desolations; for the grass has dried up, the tender grass is finished; green growth there is none.

• Jeremiah 48:34

  From the outcry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will be desolations.

• Ezekiel 5:15

  And it will be a reproach and a taunt, a correction and a horror to the nations that are around you, when I carry out judgments on you in anger and in fury and with rebukes of fury. I, YHWH, have spoken.

• Ezekiel 6:14

  And I will stretch out my hand against them, and make the land a desolation and a horror more than the wilderness of Diblah, in all their dwelling places; and they will know that I am YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 33:28

  And I will make the land a desolation and a horror, and the pride of her strength will cease, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate, with no one passing through.

• Ezekiel 33:29

  And they will know that I am YHWH, when I make the land a desolation and a horror because of all their abominations that they have done.’

• Ezekiel 35:3

  and say to it, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a horror.