Person

Shammah

Gender:: Male
Verse mentions:: 5

One of the sons of Jesse (1 Sam. 16:9). He is also called Shimeah (2 Sam. 13:3) and Shimma (1 Chr. 2:13).

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Parents 1

Jesse

Children 1

Jonadab· father

Siblings 7

Abinadab David Eliab Elihu Nethaneel Ozem Raddai

Member of 1

Tribe of Judah

Appears in 5

Reference	Verse
1 Samuel 16:9	Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1 Samuel 17:13	And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
2 Samuel 13:3	But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
2 Samuel 13:32	And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
1 Chronicles 2:13	And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

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