שִׁמְעָא
Shimʻâʼ · shim-aw'
Shima, the name of four Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: for H8093 (שִׁמְעָה);
Shima, the name of four Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Shimea, Shimei, Shamma.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › strength, the leader
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁמְעָא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of shimea3 · 50%
- shimea2 · 33%
- and shimma1 · 17%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.