Shelemiah

Mentioned in 597 BC traditional (Jones)

Father of a captain of the ward (Jer. 37:13).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Hananiah
Child: Irijah
Tagged in: 1 verse

Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Hananiah, Irijah, and Jeremiah.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Shelemiah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

location not graded: Benjamin Gate1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 622–572 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

1 tagged verse in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

Jeremiah1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Shelemiah 10
KJV	Shelemiah 10
ASV	Shelemiah 10

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 1 tagged verse, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Jeremiah1 verse

37:13
But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.