Strong's Lexicon

H3456

H3456 — יָשַׁם

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewyashamverb-stemOccurrences: 4TWOT: 927

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3456
Word:	יָשַׁם
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	4
Transliteration:	yasham
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	yaw-sham'
Meaning:	1. to lie waste
KJV Renderings:	be desolate.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3794

[יָשַׁם] verb be desolate (compare שָׁמַם) —

Qal Imperfect 3 feminine singular תֵּשַׁם Ezek 12:19 תֵּשָׁ֑ם Gen 47:19 וַתֵּ֫שַׁם Ezek 19:7 3 feminine plural תִּישָׁ֑מְנָה Ezek 6:6 (Co תֵּשׁמנה); — be desolate , subject ארץ Ezek 12:19; Ezek 19:7 subject אֲדָמָה Gen 47:19 ( J ); subject במות Ezek 6:6.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

ישם (yah-sham’)

Genesis 47:19

KJV: Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

EHCC: that the land be not desolate.

Ezekiel 6:6

KJV: In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.images: or, sun images

EHCC: the high places shall be desolate;

Ezekiel 12:19

KJV: And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.all that…: Heb. the fulness thereof

EHCC: that her Tana may be desolate

Ezekiel 19:7

KJV: And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.their desolate…: or, their widowsthe fulness…: or, all it containeth

EHCC: and the land was desolate,