STRONGS NUMBER H8098


Word Summary
Shemayah or Shemayahu: "Yah hears", the name of a number of Isr
Original Word: שְׁמַעְיָה
Transliteration: Shemayah or Shemayahu
Phonetic Spelling: (shem-aw-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah hears", the name of a number of Isr
Meaning: Shemaiah -- "Yah hears", the name of a number of Israelites
Strong's Concordance
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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8098. Shemayah

or Shemayahu שְׁמַעְיָ֫ה(וּׅproper name, masculine Σαμαιας etc.: שְׁמַעְיָה

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

2 Jeremiah's time:

a. false prophet Jeremiah 29:31 (twice in verse); 29:32 = יָהוּ‎- 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 = שַׁמּוּעַ3

c. 1 Chronicles 15:8, 11

d. 1 Chronicles 24:6.

e. 1 Chronicles 26:4, 6, 7

f.2 Chronicles 29:14.

g. Ezra 8:16.

h. Nehemiah 11:15. Also יָהוּ‎-

i.2 Chronicles 17:8.

j.2 Chronicles 31:15.

k.2 Chronicles 35:9.

8 companions of Ezra:

a. Ezra:

a. Ezra 8:13.

b. Ezra 6:10.

10 priests:

a. Nehemiah 10:9; 12:42.

b. Nehemiah 12:6.18.

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

11 a prince Nehemiah 12:34.

אֶשְׁתְּמוֺעַ‎ see above.