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title: שַׁמָּא — Shamma · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׁמָּא (8037), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Shamma. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׁמָּא

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«שַׁמָּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shamma** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 8037 · **BDB:** שַׁמָּא²

### Glosses

Shamma (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shamma [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8037/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8037/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Asher, 1 Ch 7:37, Σεμ(μ)α, etc.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׁמָּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8037/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 7:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.37/)

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בֶּ֣צֶר וָה֗וֹד וְשַׁמָּ֧א וְשִׁלְשָׁ֛ה וְיִתְרָ֖ן וּבְאֵרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera

*JPS 1917:* Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilsha, and Ithran, and Beera.

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[2 Samuel 23:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.11/)

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וְאַחֲרָ֛יו שַׁמָּ֥א בֶן־אָגֵ֖א הָרָרִ֑י וַיֵּאָסְפ֨וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים לַחַיָּ֗ה וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֞ם חֶלְקַ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ מְלֵאָ֣ה עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וְהָעָ֥ם נָ֖ס מִפְּנֵ֥י פְלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] after him Shamma the.son of.Agee \[the\].Hararite and they.were.gathered \[the\].Philistines to the community and it.was there the.portion of the.field full lentils and the people it.fled from before \[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.

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