Shemaiah

Meanings

1. Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:
2. A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:22-24).
3. Neh. 3:29.
4. A Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37).
5. A priest (Neh. 12:42).
6. A Levite (1 Chr. 9:16).
7. 1 Chr. 9:14; Neh. 11:15.
8. A Levite in the time of David, who with 200 of his brethren took part in the bringing up of the ark from Obed-edom to Hebron (1 Chr. 15:8).
9. A Levite (1 Chr. 24:6).
10. The eldest son of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 26:4-8).
11. A Levite (2 Chr. 29:14).
12. A false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 6:10).

Etymology

From the Biblical Hebrew שְׁמַעְיָה (“[whom] God heard”).