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# שִׁמְעָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8092

**Shimea** — 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

Shimea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8092/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְעָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8092/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. brother of David 2 S 21:21 Qr (cf. Dr; Kt שמעי) Σεμεει, 𝔊L Σαμαα, = 1 Ch 20:7, third son of Jesse 1 Ch 2:13; = שִׁמְעָה 2 S 13:3, 32, Σαμα(α), etc., שַׁמָּה (q.v.) 1 S 16:9; 17:13. son of David 1 Ch 3:5 (= שַׁמּוּעַ 1), Σαμαν, Σαμαα. Levites, Σομεα, Σαμα(α): 1 Ch 6:15. v 24.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.15/#tree)

שִׁמְעָ֥א בְנ֛וֹ חַגִּיָּ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ עֲשָׂיָ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* Shimea son his Haggiah son his Asaiah son his

*JPS 1917:* Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

[1 Chronicles 20:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.7/#tree)

וַיְחָרֵ֖ף אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיַּכֵּ֙הוּ֙ יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן בֶּן־שִׁמְעָ֖א אֲחִ֥י דָוִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* and he.taunted (et) Israel and he struck.him.down Jonathan the.son of.Shimea the.brother of.David

*JPS 1917:* And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8092.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8092/): 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).