Bible Names

Shema: meaning of the name

Shema means “hearing; obeying.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shema in Hebrew and Greek

שֶׁמַע H8087

Shemaʻ (sheh'-mah) — Shema, the name of a place in Palestine and of four Israelites

for the same as H8088 (שֵׁמַע);

שְׁמָע H8090

Shᵉmâʻ (shem-aw') — Shema, a place in Palestine

for H8087 (שֶׁמַע);

People named Shema in the Bible

Places named Shema

Shema in Scripture

“Shema” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 15:26

    Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

  • 1 Chronicles 2:43

    And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:44

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

  • 1 Chronicles 5:8

    And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal–meon:

  • 1 Chronicles 8:13

    Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:

  • Nehemiah 8:4

    And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.