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Shammah

Also called Shimeah and Shimma

Mentioned 1751–1029 BC traditional (Jones)

One of the sons of Jesse (1 Sam. 16:9). He is also called Shimeah (2 Sam. 13:3) and Shimma (1 Chr. 2:13).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Jesse
Child
Jonadab
Siblings
Abinadab, Eliab, Nethaneel, Ozem, Raddai, David, Elihu
Tagged in
5 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1931–849 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

5 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 1 Samuel2
  2. 2 Samuel2
  3. 1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBShammah 9Shimeah 3Shimma 0
KJVShammah 8Shimeah 3Shimma 1
ASVShammah 8Shimeah 3Shimma 0

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 5 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Samuel2 verses
  1. 16:9

    Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

  2. 17:13

    The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.

2 Samuel2 verses
  1. 13:3

    Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

  2. 13:32

    But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 2:13

    Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

One of the sons of Jesse (1 Sam. 16:9). He is also called Shimeah (2 Sam. 13:3) and Shimma (1 Chr. 2:13).