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# שְׁמַעְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8098

**Shemaiah** — used 34 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/1513/8098/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמַעְיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8098/#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, 30 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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 (24); of Shemaiah (7); \[was\] Shemaiah (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.6/#tree)

שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥ה וְיוֹיָרִ֖יב יְדַֽעְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Shemaiah and Joiarib Jedaiah

*JPS 1917:* Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah;

[Nehemiah 10:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.9/#tree)

מַֽעַזְיָ֥ה בִלְגַּ֖י שְׁמַֽעְיָ֑ה אֵ֖לֶּה הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* Maaziah Bilgai Shemaiah these \[were\].the priests

*JPS 1917:* Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8098.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8098/): 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).