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HebrewH8098Proper Noun (Masculine)

שְׁמַעְיָ֫הוּ

she.ma.yah

38Occurrences
H8098Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shemajah, the name of twenty-five Israelites

or שְׁמַעְיָהוּ; from H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has heard;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A prophet living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at § Shemaiah = "heard by Jehovah" 1) a prophet of the Lord in the reign of king Rehoboam of ) the Nehelamite, a false prophet in the time of the prophet Jeremiah 3) father of Delaiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of the prophet Jeremiah 4) an inhabitant of Kirjathjearim and father of Urijah, a prophet of the Lord in the time of the prophet Jeremiah 5) a Judaite, son of Shechaniah, father of Hattush, and descendant of Zerubbabel 6) a Simeonite, father of Shimri 7) a Reubenite, son of Joel and father of ) a Merarite Levite, son of Hasshub in the time of Nehemiah 9) a Levite, son of Galal and father of Obadiah 10) a Levite and head of the family of the sons of Elizaphan who were commissioned to bring the ark to Jerusalem in the time of ) a Levite and scribe, son of Nethaneel in the time of ) a Levite, 1st son of Obed-Edom in the time of ) a Levite, descendant of Jeduthun the singer in the time of king Hezekiah of ) a Levite, one of the messengers of Ezra to ) a Levite in the time of king Jehoshaphat of ) a Levite, one of several in charge of distributing the free will offerings brought to God to their Levite brethren in the time of king Hezekiah of ) a Levite in the time of king Josiah of ) head of a family of exiles who returned with ) a priest, of the sons of Harim who had a foreign wife in the time of ) an Israelite of the sons of Harim who had a foreign wife in the time of ) son of Delaiah, grandson of Mehetabeel, and a false prophet hired by Tobiah and Sanballat to give false guidance to Nehemiah 22) a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah and participated in the dedication of the wall 23) a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel 24) a leader of the people at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah 25) grandfather of the priest Zechariah who participated in the dedication of the wall in the time of Nehemiah 26) another of the priests who along with 25 took part in the dedication of the wall in the time of Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שְׁמַעְיָ֫הוּ appears 38 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
11
Nehemiah
9
2 Chronicles
8
Jeremiah
5
Ezra
4
1 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 15:8BSB

from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the chief and 200 of his relatives;

1 Chronicles 4:37BSB

and Ziza son of Shiphi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah).

2 Chronicles 12:7BSB

When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

Ezra 10:31BSB

From the descendants of Harim:Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Jeremiah 36:12BSB

he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

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