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HebrewH8018Proper Noun (Masculine)

שֶׁלֶמְיָהוּ

she.lem.yah

10Occurrences
H8018Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shelemjah, the name of nine Israelites

or שֶׁלֶמְיָהוּ; from H8002 (שֶׁלֶם) and H3050 (יָהּ); thankoffering of Jah;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at § Shelemiah = "repaid by Jehovah" 1) a son of Bani who put away his foreign wife in the time of ) another son of Bani who put away his foreign wife in the time of ) father of Hananiah who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah 4) a priest in the time of Nehemiah in charge of the treasury 5) father of Jehucal or Jucal in the time of Zedekiah 6) Levite upon whom the lot for the East Gate fell; in the time of a) also 'Meshelemiah' and 'Shallum' 7) father of Nethaniah and grandfather of Jehudi, who was the messenger sent to Baruch the scribe of Jeremiah 8) son of Abdeel and one the men commanded by king Jehoiakim of Judah to seize the prophet Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch 9) father of Irijah, the captain of the guard who arrested Jeremiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שֶׁלֶמְיָהוּ appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
5
Ezra
2
Nehemiah
2
1 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 26:14BSB

The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah.Then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and the lot for the North Gate fell to him.

Ezra 10:41BSB

Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,

Jeremiah 36:26BSB

Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.

Jeremiah 37:13BSB

But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

Nehemiah 13:13BSB

I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.