שִׁמְעָהShimʻâh
שַׁמָּה: 1.
Pronunciation: shim-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8093
Meanings
in Edom (Genesis 36:13; Genesis 36:17; 1 Chronicles 1:37)
2. third son of Jesse (1 Samuel 16:9; 1 Samuel 17:13)
3. heroes of David
שִׁמְעָא: 1. brother of David (2 Samuel 21:21; 1 Chronicles 20:7; 1 Chronicles 2:13)
2. son of David (1 Chronicles 3:5)
3. Levites
שִׁמְעָה: proper name, masculine: see שִׁמְעָא 1 above
Same root
- שֵׁמַעshêmaʻ · H8088something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience
- שִׁמְאָהShimʼâh · H8039Shimah, an Israelite
- שִׁמְעָאShimʻâʼ · H8092Shima, the name of four Israelites
- שְׁמָעָהShᵉmâʻâh · H8094Shemaah, an Israelite
- שִׁמְעָתִיShimʻâthîy · H8101a Shimathite (collectively) or descendants of Shimah
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 13:3 But Amnon had a very crafty friend—his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David’s brother Shimea.
- 2 Samuel 13:32 But just then Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimea, arrived and said, “No, don’t believe that all the king’s sons have been killed! It was only Amnon! Absalom has been plotting this ever since Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 21:21 But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David’s brother Shimea.
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).