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# שַׁמָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8037

**Shamma** — used 2 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

Shamma [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8037/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁמָּא²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8037/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Asher, 1 Ch 7:37, Σεμ(μ)α, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.37/#tree)

בֶּ֣צֶר וָה֗וֹד וְשַׁמָּ֧א וְשִׁלְשָׁ֛ה וְיִתְרָ֖ן וּבְאֵרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera

*JPS 1917:* Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilsha, and Ithran, and Beera.

[2 Samuel 23:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.11/#tree)

וְאַחֲרָ֛יו שַׁמָּ֥א בֶן־אָגֵ֖א הָרָרִ֑י וַיֵּאָסְפ֨וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים לַחַיָּ֗ה וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֞ם חֶלְקַ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ מְלֵאָ֣ה עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וְהָעָ֥ם נָ֖ס מִפְּנֵ֥י פְלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] after him Shamma the.son of.Agee \[the\].Hararite and they.were.gathered \[the\].Philistines to the community and it.was there the.portion of the.field full lentils and the people it.fled from before \[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8037.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8037/): 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).