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# שֶׁלֶמְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Shelemiah** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shelemiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b6_5c1_5dc_5b6_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁלֶמְיָה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b6_5c1_5dc_5b6_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Jeremiah’s time; Σελεμιου (genit.): -יָ֫הוּ Je 36:14. יָ֫הוּ v 26. -יָה 37:3, -יָהוּ 38:1. -יָה 37:13. Levite, -יָהוּ 1 Ch 26:14, τῷ Σαλαμεια, etc., = שַׁלּוּם 12 a, q.v. post-ex. names: -יָה Ne 3:30, Τελεμια(ς), 𝔊L Σελ´. -יָה Ne 13:13, priest, Σελεμια(ς) (= c or d?). -יָה Ezr 10:39, Σελεμια. -יָהוּ v 41, 𝔊 id.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shelemiah (3); of Shelemiah (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.41/#tree)

עֲזַרְאֵ֥ל וְשֶׁלֶמְיָ֖הוּ שְׁמַרְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Azarel and Shelemiah Shemariah

*JPS 1917:* Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah;

[1 Chronicles 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.14/#tree)

וַיִּפֹּ֧ל הַגּוֹרָ֛ל מִזְרָ֖חָה לְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֑הוּ וּזְכַרְיָ֨הוּ בְנ֜וֹ יוֹעֵ֣ץ ׀ בְּשֶׂ֗כֶל הִפִּ֙ילוּ֙ גּֽוֹרָל֔וֹת וַיֵּצֵ֥א גוֹרָל֖וֹ צָפֽוֹנָה׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.fell the lot eastward to Shelemiah and Zechariah son his \[was\].a.counselor with insight they.cast lots and it.came.out lot his northward

*JPS 1917:* And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b6_5c1_5dc_5b6_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b6_5c1_5dc_5b6_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).