Shemaiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃɛmɛˈjɑː/
Etymology: From the Biblical Hebrew שְׁמַעְיָה (“[whom] God heard”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:22-24).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
Neh. 3:29.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A priest (Neh. 12:42).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Levite (1 Chr. 9:16).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
1 Chr. 9:14; Neh. 11:15.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Levite in the time of David, who with 200 of his brethren took part in the bringing up of the ark from Obed-edom to Hebron (1 Chr. 15:8).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Levite (1 Chr. 24:6).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
The eldest son of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 26:4-8).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Levite (2 Chr. 29:14).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 6:10).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A prince of Judah who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:34-36).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer. 29:24-32).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
One of the Levites whom Jehoshaphat appointed to teach the law (2 Chr. 17:8).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Levite appointed to "distribute the oblations of the Lord" (2 Chr. 31:15).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A Levite (2 Chr. 35:9).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
The father of Urijah the prophet (Jer. 26:20).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
The father of a prince in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:12).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
A rabbinic sage who was leader of the Pharisees in 1st century BC.