Strong H8098H8098Nשְׁמַעְיָ֫הוּ

Shemaiah

One of the 26 senses of Strong H8098

Transliteration: shema‛yâh shema‛yâhû
Pronunciation: {shem-aw-yaw'} shem-aw-yaw'-hoo
Morphology: Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.8.13

Meaning of the name

Shemaiah = "heard by Jehovah"

General definition

From H8085 and H3050; Jah has heard;
{Shemajah} the name of twenty five Israelites: - Shemaiah.

In the biblical story

Shemaiah

Returnee from Babylon

Shemaiah, a descendant of Adonikam who returned to Jerusalem with Ezra.

In the Bible

Strong H8098N appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

shemaiah1

First verses

Ezra 8:13
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

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Ezra1

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