sham.ma is used as a proper personal name in a genealogical list and for the son of Agee in a battle setting.

The attested forms function as a proper personal name: one occurs among a list of names, and the other identifies the son of Agee amid the Philistines' gathering and the people's flight.

1. Proper personal name · dominant

   Both occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In 1 Chronicles 7:37 the APB renders the name within the list, “Bezer, Hod, Shammah, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.” In 2 Samuel 23:11 the APB renders “Shammah son of Agee the Hararite” before describing the Philistines' gathering and the people's flight.

   1 Chronicles 7:372 Samuel 23:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the form as “Shammah” in both verses: as a name in a list in 1 Chronicles 7:37 and as “Shammah son of Agee” in 2 Samuel 23:11. The verse is read as a whole.