shē ́ma (שׁמע, shemā‛; Σαμαά, Samaá): A city of Judah in the Negeb (Joshua 15:26). If, as some think, identical with SHEBA (which see) of Joshua 19:2, then the latter must have been inserted here from Joshua 15:26. It is noticeable that the root letters (שׁמע, sh-m-‛) were those from which Simeon is derived. Shema is probably identical with Jeshua (Nehemiah 11:26). The place was clearly far South, and it may be Kh. Sa‛wah, a ruin upon a prominent hilltop between Kh. ‛Attīr and Khirbet el-Milḥ. There is a wall around the ruins, of large blocks of conglomerate flint (PEF, III, 409, Sh XXV).
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Author: International Std. Bible Encyclopedia
Keywords: Shema
Source: James Orr (editor), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 5 volume set.
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