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2 Chronicles 12:5
“Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8098 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Shemajah, the name of twenty-five Israelites
- Derivation
- or שְׁמַעְיָהוּ; from H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has heard;
- KJV renderings
- Shemaiah.
- Grammar
- וּֽ — conjunction
- שְׁמַֽעְיָ֤ה — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 41 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Kings 12:221 Chronicles 3:221 Chronicles 3:221 Chronicles 4:371 Chronicles 5:4
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 שְׁמַעְיָה 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.