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title: שִׁמָּמוֹן — appalment · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁמָּמוֹן (8078), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: appalment. BDB 1906: appalment, horror. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁמָּמוֹן

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«שִׁמָּמוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **appalment** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 8078 · **BDB:** שִׁמָּמוֹן

### Glosses

horror (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

appalment [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8078/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

appalment, horror [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8078/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] appalment, horror (BaNB 324, 336; another view LagBN 202, 203);—abs. Ez 4:16 drink water בְּשׁ׳, so 12:19.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁמָּמוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8078/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 4:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.16/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י בֶּן־אָדָם֙ הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁבֵ֤ר מַטֵּה־לֶ֙חֶם֙ בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְאָכְלוּ־לֶ֥חֶם בְּמִשְׁקָ֖ל וּבִדְאָגָ֑ה וּמַ֕יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה וּבְשִׁמָּמ֖וֹן יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me O.son of.humankind here I \[am\].about.to.break \[the\].staff of.bread in Jerusalem and they.will.eat bread by weight and in anxiety and water by measure and in horror they.will.drink

*JPS 1917:* Moreover He said unto me: 'Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment;

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[Ezekiel 12:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.19/)

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וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶל־עַ֣ם הָאָ֡רֶץ כֹּֽה־אָמַר֩ אֲדֹנָ֨י יְהוִ֜ה לְיוֹשְׁבֵ֤י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ אֶל־אַדְמַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַחְמָם֙ בִּדְאָגָ֣ה יֹאכֵ֔לוּ וּמֵֽימֵיהֶ֖ם בְּשִׁמָּמ֣וֹן יִשְׁתּ֑וּ לְמַ֜עַן תֵּשַׁ֤ם אַרְצָהּ֙ מִמְּלֹאָ֔הּ מֵחֲמַ֖ס כָּֽל־הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say to the.people of the.land thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh of the.inhabitants of.Jerusalem concerning the.land of.Israel food their in anxiety they.will.eat and water their in horror they.will.drink so.that it.may.be.desolate land its from fullness its from the.violence of.all the inhabitants in it

*JPS 1917:* and say unto the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with appalment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

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