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# שַׁמּוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8051

**Shammua** — 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

Shammua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8051/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁמּוּעַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8051/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of David 2 S 5:14 = 1 Ch 14:4, Σαμμους\[ε\], Σαμαα (= שִׁמְעָא 2). Reubenite, Nu 13:4, Σαμουηλ, Σαλαμιηλ, etc. Levite, Ne 11:17 (= שְׁמַעְיָה 1 Ch 9:16), Σαμουει, etc.; 12:18 (? same person), 𝔊L Σαμουε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shammua (4); of Shammua (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.18/#tree)

לְבִלְגָּ֣ה שַׁמּ֔וּעַ לִֽשְׁמַעְיָ֖ה יְהוֹנָתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* of Bilgah Shammua of Shemaiah Jonathan

*JPS 1917:* of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

[Numbers 13:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.4/#tree)

וְאֵ֖לֶּה שְׁמוֹתָ֑ם לְמַטֵּ֣ה רְאוּבֵ֔ן שַׁמּ֖וּעַ בֶּן־זַכּֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* and these names \[are\].their for the.tribe of.Reuben Shammua the.son of.Zaccur

*JPS 1917:* And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8051.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8051/): 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).