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# שִׁמְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8093

**Shimeah** — used 3 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

Shimeah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8093/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְעָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8093/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. v. שִׁמְעָא 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (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: of Shimeah (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 21:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.21/#tree)

וַיְחָרֵ֖ף אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיַּכֵּ֙הוּ֙ יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן בֶּן־שִׁמְעָ֖ה אֲחִ֥י דָוִֽד׃

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

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

[2 Samuel 13:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.3/#tree)

וּלְאַמְנ֣וֹן רֵ֗עַ וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יֽוֹנָדָ֔ב בֶּן־שִׁמְעָ֖ה אֲחִ֣י דָוִ֑ד וְי֣וֹנָדָ֔ב אִ֥ישׁ חָכָ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to Amnon a.friend and name his \[was\].Jonadab the.son of.Shimeah the.brother of.David and Jonadab \[was\].a.man shrewd very

*JPS 1917:* But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8093.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8093/): 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).