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Shemaiah

Mentioned in 598 BC traditional (Jones)

A false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer. 29:24-32).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Tagged in
3 verses

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.

Family tree of Shemaiah: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

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. location unknown: Nehelam3

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 623–573 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.

Timeline of Shemaiah’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Shemaiah in 3 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Jeremiah3

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBShemaiah 40
KJVShemaiah 41
ASVShemaiah 41

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

Jeremiah3 verses
  1. 29:24

    You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

  2. 29:31

    “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,

  3. 29:32

    this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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

A false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer. 29:24-32).