Shammah
שַׁמָּהStrong’s H8093shammah (sham-mah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shammah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shimeah”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.”
Meaning
- Son of Reuel, grandson of Esau, and a chief of Edom
- The 3rd son of Jesse and a brother of David
How it's translated
- shimeah 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 13:32And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 21:21And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁמָּה shammah · Shammah
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.16.9; son of: Jesse (H3448); brother of: David (H1732), Eliab (H0446I), Abinadab (H0041I), Nethanel (H5417H), Raddai (H7288), Ozem (H0684), Zeruiah (H6870), Abigail (H0026H)(?) and Elihu (H0453J); father of: Jonadab (H3122); also called Shimei (KJV: Shimea) at 2Sa.21.21; Shammah at 1Sa.16.9; 17.13; Shimea at 1Ch.2.13; 20.7; Another name of shim.ah (שִׁמְעָה "Shimeah" H8093) § Shammah = "astonishment" 1) son of Reuel, grandson of Esau, and a chief of Edom 2) the 3rd son of Jesse and a brother of David …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.