SHEMIDA

(She·miʹda) [the name knows].

A son of Gilead and great-grandson of Manasseh. From Shemida’s four sons grew a tribal family, the Shemidaites, that was numbered in the second wilderness census and received a territory allotment in the Promised Land.—Num. 26:2, 29-32; Josh. 17:2; 1 Chron. 7:19.