שֶׁמַעShemaʻ

Shema, the name of a place in Palestine and of four Israelites

Pronunciation: sheh'-mah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8087

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:43 The sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:44 Shema was the father of Raham. Raham was the father of Jorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai.
  • 1 Chronicles 5:8 and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel. The Reubenites lived in the area that stretches from Aroer to Nebo and Baal-meon.
  • 1 Chronicles 8:13 Beriah, and Shema. They were the leaders of the clans living in Aijalon, and they drove out the inhabitants of Gath.
  • Nehemiah 8:4 Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform that had been made for the occasion. To his right stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah. To his left stood Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

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).