Strong H8098H8098Pשְׁמַעְיָ֫הוּ
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.10.21
Meaning of the name
Shemaiah = "heard by Jehovah"
General definition
In the biblical story
Shemaiah
Priest who married a foreign woman
Shemaiah, a priest who was among those who had married foreign women during the exile.
In the Bible
Strong H8098P appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- shemaiah1
First verses
- Ezra 10:21And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.