Bible Names

Shammah: meaning of the name

Shammah means “loss; desolation; astonishment.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shammah in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁמָּה H8048

Shammâh (sham-maw') — Shammah, the name of an Edomite and four Israelites

the same as H8047 (שַׁמָּה);

People named Shammah in the Bible

Shammah in Scripture

“Shammah” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 36:13

    And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

  • Genesis 36:17

    And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

  • 1 Samuel 16:9

    Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

  • 1 Samuel 17:13

    And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

  • 2 Samuel 23:11

    And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.

  • 2 Samuel 23:25

    Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

  • 2 Samuel 23:33

    Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,

  • 1 Chronicles 1:37

    The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.