Bible Names

Shamgar: meaning of the name

Shamgar means “named a stranger; he is here a stranger.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shamgar in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁמְגַּר H8044

Shamgar (sham-gar') — Shamgar, an Israelite judge

of uncertain derivation;

Who named Shamgar in the Bible

Shamgar in Scripture

“Shamgar” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Judges 3:31

    And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

  • Judges 5:6

    In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.