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# שַׁמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8048

**Shammah** — used 7 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

Shammah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8048/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁמָּה³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8048/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Edom Gn 36:13, 17; 1 Ch 1:37, usually Σομε. third son of Jesse 1 S 16:9; 17:13, Σαμ(μ)α, 𝔊L Σαμαα; v. שִׁמְעָא, שִׁמְעָה, שִׁמִעִי. Σαμαια(ς), etc., heroes of David: 2 S 23:11 (om. accid. ‖ 1 Ch 11:13 Dr), v 33. v 25 = שַׁמּוֹת 1 Ch 11:27, Σαμαωθ, Σαμ(μ)ωθ; prob. also שַׁמְהוּת 1 Ch 27:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shammah (6); \[was\] Shammah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.25/#tree)

שַׁמָּה֙ הַֽחֲרֹדִ֔י אֱלִיקָ֖א הַחֲרֹדִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Shammah the Harodite Elika the Harodite

*JPS 1917:* Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite;

[2 Samuel 23:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.33/#tree)

שַׁמָּה֙ הַֽהֲרָרִ֔י אֲחִיאָ֥ם בֶּן־שָׁרָ֖ר הָארָרִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Shammah the Hararite Ahiam the.son of.Sharar the.Hararite

*JPS 1917:* Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8048.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8048/): 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).