שֶׁלֶמְיָהShelemyâh

Shelemjah, the name of nine Israelites

Pronunciation: shel-em-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8018

Meanings

1. Jeremiah's time

2. Levite, = שַׁלּוּם 12.a. (1 Chronicles 26:14)

3. post-exilic names

b. priest, (= c or d?) (Nehemiah 13:13)

d. id. (Ezra 10:41)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:14 The responsibility for the east gate went to Meshelemiah and his group. The north gate was assigned to his son Zechariah, a man of unusual wisdom.
  • Ezra 10:39 Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
  • Ezra 10:41 Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
  • Nehemiah 3:30 Next Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section, while Meshullam son of Berekiah rebuilt the wall across from where he lived.
  • Nehemiah 13:13 I assigned supervisors for the storerooms: Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah, one of the Levites. And I appointed Hanan son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah as their assistant. These men had an excellent reputation, and it was their job to make honest distributions to their fellow Levites.
  • Jeremiah 36:14 the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, grandson of Shelemiah and great-grandson of Cushi, to ask Baruch to come and read the messages to them, too. So Baruch took the scroll and went to them.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).