me.sham.mah denotes a ruinous, desolate condition imposed on land, places, and waters in Scripture.

The attested use describes a condition of ruin imposed on a land or place: Israel's land is made desolate, Mount Seir is given over to ruin, and the waters of Nimrim become devastated. The singular form occurs for devastated land or a place, while the plural form appears in the statements about Nimrim's waters.

1. Ruined or desolate condition · dominant

   In Ezekiel 33:28 and Ezekiel 33:29, the singular noun occurs in the declaration that the land will be made desolate because of the people's actions; the APB renders the land as "a desolation and a waste." Ezekiel 35:3, Ezekiel 5:15, and Ezekiel 6:14 likewise place the noun in judgments that give a mountain, a people, or the land over to devastation. In Isaiah 15:6 and Jeremiah 48:34, the plural form occurs in clauses concerning the waters of Nimrim; the APB presents those waters as becoming devastated or desolate.

   Ezekiel 33:28Ezekiel 33:29Ezekiel 35:3Ezekiel 5:15Ezekiel 6:14Isaiah 15:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses "desolation," "devastation," "devastations," and "desolate" in these verses. Because it translates whole clauses rather than aligning individual words, those renderings show the verse-level portrayal of ruin rather than fixed English equivalents.