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shē´ma (ש×מע, shemā‛; ΣαμααÌ, SamaaÌ): A city of Judah in the Negeb (). If, as some think, identical with SHEBA (which see) of , then the latter must have been inserted here from . It is noticeable that the root letters (ש×מע, sh-m-‛) were those from which Simeon is derived. Shema is probably identical with Jeshua (). The place was clearly far South, and it may be Kh. Sa‛wah, a ruin upon a prominent hilltop between Kh. ‛Attı̄r and Khirbet el-MilhÌ£. There is a wall around the ruins, of large blocks of conglomerate flint (PEF, III, 409, Sh XXV).