שִׁמָּמוֹן
horror
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8078 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 4:16 וּ/בְ/שִׁמָּמ֖וֹן conj + prep + n c ms Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
- Ezekiel 12:19 בְּ/שִׁמָּמ֣וֹן prep + n c ms and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“horror” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שממון (shimmâmôwn). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezekiel. First canonically at Ezekiel 4:16, it enters the text early. It shares a root with שמם, משמה and שמה. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8078 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Astonishment 2×
- American Standard Version: Dismay 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Despair 1×, Dread 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shaking 1×, Trembling 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8078 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8078 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8078 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8078 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- horror, dismay, appalment
Word origin
שִׁמָּמוֹן n.[m.] appalment, horror;—abs.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שמם (shâmêm) (H8074) — to be desolate.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָמוֹן
- (contr. of מהמון, v. הָמוֹן; הָמָה) accumulation, wealth, value (in Greek writers: Mammon). Tanḥ. Matt. 7 אתם חיבבתם את מָמוֹנְכֶם וכ׳ you loved your wealth (of cattle) more than your souls; Num. R. s. 12. Ib.; Tanḥ. l. c. 6 מ̇מ̇ון̇ מ̇ה שאתה מ̇ונ̇ה אינו כלום money is named mamon, that which thou countest is nothing. B. Mets. 2ᵇ, a. fr. מ׳ המוטל בספק property of doubtful ownership (with several claimants). Tosef. B. Mets. VII, 13; B. Kam. 116ᵇ מחשבין לפי מ׳ the loss of a caravan attacked by robbers (the redemption paid them) is apportioned according to the value of the freight which each passenger carried, contrad. to לפי נפשות according to the number of passengers. Ib. 83ᵇ עין תחת עין מ׳ ‘eye for eye’ (Ex. XXI, 24) means a fine in value, opp. עין ממש an actual putting out of the eye; a. v. fr.—[Pesik. R. s. 21 (ed. Fr., p. 105ᵇ) אין אתה עומד במימיו, read במָמוֹנוֹ, thou canst not define its value; Fr. a. l. emends בטִימְיוֹ, v. טִימֵי.]—Pl. מָמוֹנוֹת. Snh. I, 1, v. דִּין; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 21:24
מָמוֹן ²
- Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 26 מה מ׳ (Y. הניית מ׳; h. taxt מה בצע). Targ. Ex. XXI, 30 (h. text כֹּפֶר); a. fr.—B. Kam. 15ᵃ פלגא נזקא מ׳ the payment of ‘half-damage’ is considered as a due indemnity, opp. קנסא penalty. Ib. 108ᵃ תרי גווני מ׳ two kinds of indemnity (for the same action); ib. תרי ממונא two indemnities; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8078 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/שִׁמָּמ֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 12:19 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/שִׁמָּמ֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 4:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8078, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משמה mᵉshammâh H4923 devastation
- שמה shammâh H8047 desolation
- שמועה shᵉmûwʻâh H8052 report
- שמם shᵉmam H8075 to be appalled
- שמם shâmêm H8076 desolate
- שממית sᵉmâmîyth H8079 lizard
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
