Who and what is…
Shema

Hebrew: שֶׁמַע —transliteration: Shema'

This is the name of 4 biblical men and an ancient town.

1. Shema, father of Raham

   1 Chronicles 2:44

2. Shema, a Reubenite man

   1 Chronicles 5:8

3. Shema, a Benjamite man

   He was one of the “heads of father’s households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who made the inhabitants of Gath flee” (1 Chronicles 8:13)

4. Shema, a man associated with Ezra

   This Shema stood by Ezra the scribe after the Exile, when he read the law to the returned Judeans (Nehemiah 8:4).

5. Shema, a city or town

   It was located in the far south of the tribal land of Judah (Joshua 15:26)

   also known as: Sheba (Joshua 15:5)