Words the Bible translates as astonishment
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shemamahשְׁמָמָהdesolation: a land emptied of life and left a ruin, and the appalled horror that ruin provokes
- shammahשַׁמָּהa horrifying devastation: a place laid waste and abandoned, and the shudder of dread it provokes
- ekstasisἔκστασιςastonishment so strong that it knocks a person out of their normal composure
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- a trance: the state of someone whose ordinary awareness gives way while God shows them something
- thambosθάμβοςstunned awe: the wonder mixed with fear that seizes people who have just seen overwhelming power at work
- meshammahמְשַׁמָּהwasteland: ground wrecked and emptied until nothing lives on it, and the horror of the people who look at it
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