HebrewH8037Proper Noun (Masculine)
שַׁמָּא
sham.ma
“Shammah”
2Occurrences
H8037Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Shamma, an Israelite
from H8074 (שָׁמֵם); desolation;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at ; son of: Agee (H0089) § Shamma = "desert" an Asherite, son of Zophar
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
N:N-M-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
שַׁמָּא appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
1 Chronicles
1
2 Samuel
1
Key Passages
1 Chronicles 7:37BSB
Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
2 Samuel 23:11BSB
And after him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines had banded together near a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.