Definition

a waste or amazement

Etymology

from H8074 (שָׁמֵם);

Word family

• שָׁמֵם shâmêm

How the KJV renders it

• astonishment
• desolate

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.