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Shammah is a name mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. In the Book of Samuel, Shammah (Hebrew: שַׁמָּה) was the son of Agee, a Hararite (2 Samuel 23:11) or Harodite (23:25), and one of King David's three legendary "mighty men". His greatest deed was the defeat of a troop of Philistines.
'the Mighty') are a group of 37 men in the Hebrew Bible who fought with King David and are identified in 2 Samuel 23:8–38, part of the "supplementary information" added to the Second Book of Samuel in its final four chapters. The International Standard Version calls them "David's special forces". [1]
Shimei (Hebrew: שִׁמְעִי Šīmʿī) is the name of a number of persons referenced in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinical literature. The second son of Gershon and grandson of Levi (Exodus 6:17; Numbers 3:18; 1 Chronicles 6:17).
Jehovah-shammah is a Christian transliteration of the Hebrew יְהוָה שָׁמָּה (Yahweh šāmmāh) meaning "Jehovah is there", the name given to the city in Ezekiel's vision in Ezekiel 48:35. These are the final words of the Book of Ezekiel. The first word of the phrase is the tetragrammaton יהוה.
Shamgar, son of Anath (Hebrew: שַׁמְגַּר Šamgar), is the name of one or possibly two individuals named in the Book of Judges.The name occurs twice: at the first mention, Shamgar is identified as a man who repelled Philistine incursions into Israelite regions, and slaughtered 600 of the invaders with an ox goad (Judges 3:31); [1]
Variants of this story with often similar names for Noah's fourth son are also found in the c. fifth century Ge'ez work Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan (Barvin), the c. sixth century Syriac book Cave of Treasures (Yonton), the seventh century Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (Ionitus [149]), the Syriac Book of the Bee 1221 (Yônatôn), the ...
The Big Picture Story Bible is a 2004 children's Bible published by Crossway.It was written by David R. Helm and illustrated by Gail Schoonmaker. It focuses on the "overall story of God’s saving plan" instead of concentrating on individual stories, [1] and is heavily influenced by Graeme Goldsworthy's biblical theology, especially his motif of "God's people in God's place under God's rule."
Arnold Schoenberg used it as part of the story to his narrative orchestral work A Survivor from Warsaw (1947). In Parade , a musical based on true events, the main character Leo Frank , wrongly accused of the murder of a child worker at the pencil factory he manages, recites the Shema Yisrael as a vigilante gang kidnap and hang him in the final ...