Hebrew word · H8037

שַׁמָּא

shama'

Shamma

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at 2Sa.23.11;

son of: Agee (H0089)

§ Shamma = "desert"

an Asherite, son of Zophar

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

2 Samuel · 1

  1. 2 Samuel 23:11 שַׁמָּ֥א Shamma

    And after him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines had banded together near a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:37 וְשַׁמָּ֧א and Shamma

    Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

    Here: Eighth son of Zophah, mentioned only here. The meaning is uncertain: it may be a shortened form of a name like Shemaiah, 'the LORD has heard,' or be related to shammah, 'astonishment' or 'waste.'

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.