Bible Names

Shemaiah: meaning of the name

Shemaiah means “that hears or obeys the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shemaiah in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁמַעְיָה H8098

Shᵉmaʻyâh (shem-aw-yaw') — Shemajah, the name of twenty-five Israelites

or שְׁמַעְיָהוּ; from H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has heard;

People named Shemaiah in the Bible

Shemaiah in Scripture

“Shemaiah” appears in 39 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 12:22

    But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

  • 1 Chronicles 3:22

    And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:37

    And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

  • 1 Chronicles 5:4

    The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 9:14

    And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

  • 1 Chronicles 9:16

    And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:8

    Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

  • 1 Chronicles 15:11

    And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,