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Strong's #8087: Shema` (pronounced sheh'-mah)

for the same as 8088; Shema, the name of a place in Palestine and of four Israelites:--Shema.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shema‛

Shema = "hear"

1) a Reubenite, son of Joel, father of Azaz, and grandfather of Bela

2) a Judaite, son of Hebron and father of Raham

3) a Benjamite, son of Elpaal who along with his brother Beriah were heads of their fathers houses in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath. Probably the same as ' Shimhi'

4) an Israelite who stood on the right hand of Ezra as he read the Law to the people

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

1 Chronicles 2:43: "Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema."
1 Chronicles 2:44: " And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begot"
1 Chronicles 5:8: "the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt"
1 Chronicles 8:13: "Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who"
Nehemiah 8:4: "and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah,"









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