Bible Names

Shamhuth: meaning of the name

Shamhuth means “desolation; destruction.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shamhuth in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁמְהוּת H8049

Shamhûwth (sham-hooth') — Shamhuth, an Israelite

for H8048 (שַׁמָּה); desolation;

Who named Shamhuth in the Bible

Shamhuth in Scripture

“Shamhuth” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:8

    The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.