Strong’s H8060 · Hebrew
שַׁמַּי
Shammay · sham-mah'-ee
Origin from שַׁמְלַי (H8073); destructive;
Meaning Shammai, the name of three Israelites
In the King James Version Shammai.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Chronicles 2:28And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.
- 1 Chronicles 2:32And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
- 1 Chronicles 2:44And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
- 1 Chronicles 2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
- 1 Chronicles 4:17And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.