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# שֶׁמַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8087

**Shema** — 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

Shema [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8087/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫מַע²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8087/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. usually Σαμα(α), Σεμαα (cf. Sab. n.pr. סמע Hal509);— in Judah 1 Ch 2:44, שָׁ֑מַע v 43. in Reuben 5:8. in Benj. 8:13 (= שִׁמְעִי v 21). post-ex. Ne 8:4, Σαμαιας.

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 (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: Shema (4); of Shema (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.43/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י חֶבְר֑וֹן קֹ֥רַח וְתַפֻּ֖חַ וְרֶ֥קֶם וָשָֽׁמַע׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Hebron \[were\].Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

[1 Chronicles 2:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.44/#tree)

וְשֶׁ֣מַע הוֹלִ֔יד אֶת־רַ֖חַם אֲבִ֣י יָרְקֳעָ֑ם וְרֶ֖קֶם הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־שַׁמָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Shema he.fathered (et) Raham the.father of.Jorkeam and Rekem he.fathered (et) Shammai

*JPS 1917:* And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begot Shammai.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8087.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8087/): 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).