Bible Names

Shammai: meaning of the name

Shammai means “my name; my desolations.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shammai in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁמַּי H8060

Shammay (sham-mah'-ee) — Shammai, the name of three Israelites

from H8073 (שַׁמְלַי); destructive;

People named Shammai in the Bible

Shammai in Scripture

“Shammai” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:28

    And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:32

    And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:44

    And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:45

    And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth–zur.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:17

    And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.