Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8048
שַׁמָּה
Shammahsham-maw'
Shammah
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Shammâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8048is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8048
Shammah, the name of an Edomite and four Israelites
The King James renders it: Shammah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Shammah is rendered "Shammah". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 36:13These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
Genesis 36:13שַׁמָּ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's seven uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Shammah7
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁמָּה | shammah | horror: destroyed | Uses39 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שַׁמָּה֙2
- שַׁמָּ֣ה1
- שַׁמָּ֖ה1
- שַׁמָּ֑ה1
- שַׁמָּ֥ה1
- שַׁמָּֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)7HNpm
Genesis
two uses
These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- שַׁמָּ֣הshamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- שַׁמָּ֖הshamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
1 Samuel
two uses
Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
- שַׁמָּ֑הshamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
- שַׁמָּֽה׃shamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
2 Samuel
two uses
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
- שַׁמָּה֙shamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
Jonathan son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,
- שַׁמָּה֙shamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
1 Chronicles
one use
The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
- שַׁמָּ֥הshamahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shammah
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.