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# שְׁמַעְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Shemaiah** — 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

Shemaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמַעְיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Σαμαιας, etc.: שְׁמַעְיָה, prophet, Rehob.’s time 1 K 12:22 2 Ch 12:5, 7, 15; = -יָהוּ 11:2. Jer’s time: false proph. Je 29:31(×2), 32 = -יָהוּ v 24. -יָהוּ 36:12. -יָהוּ a prophet’s father 26:20. descendant of Zerub. 1 Ch 3:22(×2). in Simeon 4:37. in Reuben 5:4. Levites: 1 Ch 9:14. v 16 = שַׁמּוּעַ 3. 15:8, 11. 24:6. 26:4, 6, 7. 2 Ch 29:14. Ezr 8:16. Ne 11:15. Also -יָהוּ 2 Ch 17:8. 31:15. 35:9. companions of Ezra: Ezr 8:13. 10:21. v 31. of Neh.: Ne 3:29. 6:10. priests: Ne 10:9; 12:42. v 6, 18. v 35. v 36. a prince v 34.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: Shemaiah (5); of Shemaiah (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 29:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.24/#tree)

וְאֶל־שְׁמַעְיָ֥הוּ הַנֶּחֱלָמִ֖י תֹּאמַ֥ר לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you.will.say (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying:

[2 Chronicles 11:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.2/#tree)

וַיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥הוּ אִישׁ־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Shemaiah the.man of.(the) God (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): 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).