Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8087
שֶׁמַע
Shemasheh'-mah
Shema
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Shemaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8087
Shema, the name of a place in Palestine and of four Israelites
The King James renders it: Shema.
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
Shema is rendered "Shema". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 2:43The sons of Hebron:
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The sons of Hebron:
1 Chronicles 2:43וָשָֽׁמַע׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's five uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and Shema4
- Shema1
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְשֶׁ֣מַע1
- וְשֶׁ֡מַע1
- וָשֶׁ֔מַע1
- וָשָֽׁמַע׃1
- שֶׁ֖מַע1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4HC/Npm
- proper noun (a name)1HNpm
1 Chronicles
four uses
The sons of Hebron:
- וָשָֽׁמַע׃vashama'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shema
Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. Shema was the father of Raham the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
- וְשֶׁ֣מַעveshema'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shema
Jeiel the chief, Zechariah, and Bela son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel. They settled in Aroer and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.
- שֶׁ֖מַעshema'proper noun (a name)tagged: Shema
Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages), and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).
- וָשֶׁ֔מַעvashema'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shema
Nehemiah
one use
Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
- וְשֶׁ֡מַעveshema'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shema
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 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.