Bible Names

Shibmah: meaning of the name

Shibmah means “overmuch captivity, or sitting.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Shibmah in Hebrew and Greek

שְׂבָם H7643

Sᵉbâm (seb-awm') — Sebam or Sibmah, a place in Moab

or (feminine) שִׂבְמָה; probably from H1313 (בָּשָׂם); spice;

Shibmah in Scripture

“Shibmah” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 32:38

    And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.