יָשַׁם
yasham · be desolate
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3456 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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yasham (יָשַׁם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be desolate”.
Lie desolate, be left uncultivated.
How to say it
ya·sham
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
- Be left empty and untilled.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- become desolate ×1
- may be desolate ×1
- was desolate ×1
- will be desolate ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 47:19
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and the land will not become desolate.”
- Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and be guilty, and your idols will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.
- Ezekiel 12:19
And say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the ground of Israel: Their bread with anxiety they will eat, and their water appalled they will drink, so that its land may be desolate of its fullness because of the violence of all those who live in it.
- Ezekiel 19:7
And he knew his widows, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and all that fills it, at the sound of his roaring.