Lexicon
שֶׁלֶמְיָהוּ
she.lem.yah
H8018
N:N-M-P Hebrew

Shelemiah

10
Occurrences
4
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.lem.yah is a personal name used for people named in genealogies, official settings, and community work.

The term functions consistently as a proper personal name, identifying people in family designations, lists, official commissions, and communal assignments. Its various supplied surface forms occur in the same name-use rather than displaying distinct lexical senses.

Senses in use

  1. Personal name in narrative and lists · dominant

    The form is tagged Noun · Proper in every occurrence. In Jeremiah 36:14 the APB renders a family designation as "Jehudi son of Nethaniah son of Shelemiah son of Cushi"; in Jeremiah 36:26 it names a man commanded to seize Baruch and Jeremiah. It also occurs in lists and assignments: Ezra 10:39 names a person among others, while Nehemiah 13:13 renders "Shelemiah the priest" as one placed over the storehouses.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the term as "Shelemiah," whether in a list, a father-son designation, or an official assignment. These English presentations confirm the verse-level name use rather than supplying a separate lexical definition.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture