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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Shema
A town of Judah in the Negev, among the southernmost cities near the border of Edom. It is generally identified with the Sheba of Joshua 19:2.
A town of Judah in the Negev, among the southernmost cities near the border of Edom. It is generally identified with the Sheba of Joshua 19:2.
Shema was a town allotted to the tribe of Judah in the Negev, listed in Joshua 15:26 among the southernmost cities near the border of Edom; it is generally identified with Sheba in the parallel list at Joshua 19:2, and its exact site is unidentified. Easton's dictionary lists three unrelated men also named Shema under the same headword, but this entry, tied to Joshua 15:26, concerns only the town.
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- Joshua 15:26
