Atlas Biblica

    person

    Shemaah

    שְׁמָעָה

    Shemaah, a Gibeathite warrior from Benjamin who joined David at Ziklag.

    verses
    1
    first named
    1 Chronicles 12:3
    last named
    1 Chronicles 12:3
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    role
    Warrior

    Description

    Who was Shemaah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Shemaah the Gibeathite is mentioned in 1Ch.12.3 as one of the Benjaminite warriors who joined David at Ziklag when he was fleeing from King Saul. Shemaah is described as a Gibeathite, indicating that he was from the city of Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. He is listed among the mighty men and helpers of David in battle, but no specific details are given about his exploits or role in David's army.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Shemaah 3 of 3 entities the graph connects to Shemaah, in 2 groups: kinship 2, company 1. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AhiezerFather of · 1 verseJoashFather of · 1 verseKinshipGibeahAssociated with · 45 versesCompanyShemaah

    Associated with

    Father of

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Shemaah happens The one place the claims about Shemaah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Gibeah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Shemaah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Gibeah
    Divided MonarchyThe one place the claims about Shemaah reach

    The pattern

    Where Shemaah is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Shemaah is named in 1 verse — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 65 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.

    1. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      12:3

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via GibeahBenjaminYoungest son of Jacob and Rachelvia GibeahIttaiOne of David's mighty menvia GibeahTerritory of BenjaminTerritory of Benjamin is a place attested across 6 verses, connecting 4 pageable entities.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of ShemaahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Sources

    What this rests on