Strong's Hebrew: 8098. שְׁמַעְיָה (Shemayah or Shemayahu) -- "Yah hears," the name of a number of Isr.

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Shemayah or Shemayahu: "Yah hears," the name of a number of Isr.

Original Word: שְׁמַעְיָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Shemayah or Shemayahu
Phonetic Spelling: (shem-aw-yaw')
Short Definition: Shemaiah

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from shama and Yah
Definition
"Yah hears," the name of a number of Isr.
NASB Translation
Shemaiah (41).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שְׁמַעְיָ֫ה(וּׅ proper name, masculine Σαμαιας etc.: שְׁמַעְיָה

1 prophet, Rehoboam's time 1 Kings 12:22; 2Chronicles 12:5,7,15; = יָהוּ-2Chronicles 11:2.

2 Jeremiah's time:

a. false prophet Jeremiah 29:31 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 29:32 = יָהוּ- Jeremiah 29:24.

b. יָהוּ- Jeremiah 36:12.

3 יָהוּ- a prophet's father Jeremiah 26:20.

4 descendant of Zerubbabel 1 Chronicles 3:22 (twice in verse).

5 in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:37.

6 in Reuben 1 Chronicles 5:4.

7 Levites:

a. 1 Chronicles 9:14.

b. 1 Chronicles 9:16 = שַׁמּוּעַ 3

c. 1 Chronicles 15:8,11

d. 1 Chronicles 24:6.

e. 1 Chronicles 26:4,6,7

f.2Chronicles 29:14.

g. Ezra 8:16.

h. Nehemiah 11:15. Also יָהוּ-

i.2Chronicles 17:8.

j.2Chronicles 31:15.

k.2Chronicles 35:9.

8 companions of Ezra:

a. Ezra:

a. Ezra 8:13.

b. Ezra 6:10.

10 priests:

a. Nehemiah 10:9; Nehemiah 12:42.

b. Nehemiah 12:6.18.

c. Nehemiah 12:35 d. Nehemiah 12:36.

11 a prince Nehemiah 12:34.

אֶשְׁתְּמוֺעַ see above.

Strong's

Shemaiah

Or Shmamyahuw {shem-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from shama' and Yahh; Jah has heard; Shemajah, the name of twenty-five Israelites -- Shemaiah.

see HEBREW shama'

see HEBREW Yahh