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שְׁלֻמִיאֵל

Shelumiel

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Shelumiel’ fuller range ↓

H8017 Strong's Hebrew
Shᵉlumîyʼêl Transliteration
/shel-oo-mee-ale'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 5 appearances

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About this entry

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“Shelumiel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name שלמיאל (Shᵉlumîyʼêl). It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Numbers. Scripture first uses it in Numbers 1:6. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Shelumiel
Modern gloss
Shelumiel
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H8017 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Numbers 1:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Numbers 1:6.
Numbers 10:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Numbers 10:19.
#3,337
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 5 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Shelumiel 3×
  • American Standard Version: Shelumiel 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Shelumiel 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shelumiel 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H8017 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Shelumiel” 3×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H8017 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Shelumiel” 2×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H8017 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Shelumiel” 4×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8017 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Shelumiel” 3×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Shelumiel = "friend of God"
  2. son of Zurishaddai and prince of the tribe of Simeon at the time of the exodus

Word origin

n.pr.m. in Simeon Nu 1:6; 2:12; 7:36, 41; 10:19; Σαλαμιηλ.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from שלום (shâlôwm) (H7965) — peace.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H8017 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
שְׁלֻמִיאֵ֖ל Noun, Proper Numbers 1:6 3
שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל Noun, Proper Numbers 7:36 2

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8017, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shelumiel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(friend of God), the son of Zurishaddai, and prince of the tribe of Simeon at the time of the exodus. (Numbers 1:6; 2:12; 7:36,41; 10:19) (B.C. 1431.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

same as Shelemiah

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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Reading settings

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