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Shemaiah

Mentioned in 609 BC traditional (Jones)

The father of Urijah the prophet (Jer. 26:20).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Child
Urijah
Tagged in
1 verse

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 Shemaiah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Kiriath-jearim1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 634–584 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.

  1. Jeremiah1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBShemaiah 40
KJVShemaiah 41
ASVShemaiah 41

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Jeremiah1 verse
  1. 26:20

    Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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

The father of Urijah the prophet (Jer. 26:20).