Definition

desolation

Etymology

from H3456 (יָשַׁם);

Word family

• יָשַׁם yâsham

How the KJV renders it

• let death seize (from the margin)

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.