Bible Names

Shemida: meaning of the name

Shemida means “name of knowledge; that puts knowledge.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shemida in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁמִידָע H8061

Shᵉmîydâʻ (shem-ee-daw') — Shemida, an Israelite

apparently from H8034 (שֵׁם) and H3045 (יָדַע); name of knowing;

Who named Shemida in the Bible

Shemida in Scripture

“Shemida” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 26:32

    And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

  • Joshua 17:2

    There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:19

    And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.