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1 Chronicles 2:44
“And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שֶׁמַעShemaʻ · sheh'-mah
H8087 · Hebrew
H8087 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Shema, the name of a place in Palestine and of four Israelites
- Derivation
- for the same as H8088 (שֵׁמַע);
- KJV renderings
- Shema.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שֶׁ֣מַע — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 5 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Chronicles 2:431 Chronicles 5:81 Chronicles 8:13Nehemiah 8:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שֶׁמַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.