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Shammua

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. The representative of the tribe of Reuben among the twelve spies sent into Canaan

  • Numbers 13:4 and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

2. Shammua

See Shammuah

3. A Levite, father of Abda

  • Nehemiah 11:17 Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Called SHEMAIAH

  • 1 Chronicles 9:16 Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

4. A priest

Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “shammua” →

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.