41%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Biblical Hebrew [1] Scripts שְׁמַעְיָה(Ancient Hebrew) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Hebrew form of Shemaiah. Related Names Rootsshamaʿ + YahwehUser SubmissionShemaya Sources & References Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h8098, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h8098.