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# שְׁמַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8090

**Shema** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shema [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8090/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמַע: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8090/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in S. Judah, Jos 15:26, Σα(λ)μα(α).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.26/#tree)

אֲמָ֥ם וּשְׁמַ֖ע וּמוֹלָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Amam and Shema and Moladah

*JPS 1917:* Amam, and Shema, and Moladah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8090.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8090/): 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).