Shemida שמידע
Shemida (שמידע) is a person named in the Tanakh. Counted across every skip (2–76,212), the Torah holds 8,332 sequences of Shemida, the shortest at skip 5 (Genesis 23:11); chance alone would give about 8,619.
- Found in the Torah · every skip
- 8,332
- Chance alone · every skip
- 8,619
- P (≥ found) · every skip
- 1.00
- Shortest skip
- 5
- Longest skip found
- 75,296
Every skip the Torah allows for a spelling of 5 letters (2–76,212), both directions, final letters folded, the written text.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 1,082 found · chance alone about 1,094 (probability of 1,082 or more by chance alone: 0.64).
In the Torah
Across every skip (2–76,212), שמידע appears 8,332 times in the Torah; chance alone would give about 8,619, so the count is in line with chance.
Its smallest skip in the Torah is 5 — at Genesis 23:11, reading backward.
The longest skip at which שמידע was found in the Torah is 75,296 — at Deuteronomy 32:50, reading backward; a spelling of 5 letters fits the Torah at skips up to 76,212.
By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip
- Genesis 1,954
- Exodus 1,903
- Leviticus 1,145
- Numbers 1,952
- Deuteronomy 1,378
Examples across the range
5 of the 8,332 sequences, chosen across the range of skips — the shortest, mid-range skips and the longest found — each with its verse and its matrix.
Under each example, every letter of the sequence is listed with the verse it stands in. A letter falls in its verse by position alone — one letter every so many letters of the text — so the verses are where the letters stand, not part of the sequence's meaning.
Letter by letter
- ש מ י ד עGenesis 23:11
לֹֽא־אֲדֹנִי שְׁמָעֵנִי הַשָּׂדֶה נָתַתִּי לָךְ וְהַמְּעָרָה אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ לְךָ נְתַתִּיהָ לְעֵינֵי בְנֵי …
’Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee; bury thy dead.’
skip 5, width 5 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column. letter 28,860 of the TorahOpen at skip 5 in the laboratory →
- ש מ י ד עGenesis 23:11
Letter by letter
- ש מ י ד עGenesis 44:4
… לֹא הִרְחִיקוּ וְיוֹסֵף אָמַר לַֽאֲשֶׁר עַל־בֵּיתוֹ קוּם רְדֹף אַחֲרֵי הָֽאֲנָשִׁים וְהִשַּׂגְתָּם וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם לָמָּה שִׁלַּמְתֶּם רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָֽה
And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward: ‘Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
skip 10, width 10 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column. letter 67,247 of the TorahOpen at skip 10 in the laboratory →
- ש מ י ד עGenesis 44:4
- שExodus 29:46
וְיָדְעוּ כִּי אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיהֶם אֲשֶׁר הוֹצֵאתִי אֹתָם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם לְשָׁכְנִי …
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
- םExodus 30:2
אַמָּה אָרְכּוֹ וְאַמָּה רָחְבּוֹ רָבוּעַ יִהְיֶה וְאַמָּתַיִם קֹמָתוֹ מִמֶּנּוּ קַרְנֹתָֽיו
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.
- יExodus 30:4
… תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־לּוֹ מִתַּחַת לְזֵרוֹ עַל שְׁתֵּי צַלְעֹתָיו תַּעֲשֶׂה עַל־שְׁנֵי צִדָּיו …
And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it.
- דExodus 30:6
… לִפְנֵי הַפָּרֹכֶת אֲשֶׁר עַל־אֲרֹן הָעֵדֻת לִפְנֵי הַכַּפֹּרֶת אֲשֶׁר עַל־הָעֵדֻת …
And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the ark-cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
- עExodus 30:8
וּבְהַעֲלֹת אַהֲרֹן אֶת־הַנֵּרֹת בֵּין הָעֲרְבַּיִם יַקְטִירֶנָּה קְטֹרֶת תָּמִיד לִפְנֵי יְהוָה לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at dusk, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
skip 102, width 102 — one row is 102 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 123,006 of the TorahOpen at skip 102 in the laboratory →
- שExodus 29:46
- שNumbers 23:27
… אֶקָּחֲךָ אֶל־מָקוֹם אַחֵר אוּלַי יִישַׁר בְּעֵינֵי הָאֱלֹהִים וְקַבֹּתוֹ לִי מִשָּֽׁם …
And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.’
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
- מNumbers 24:17
… דָּרַךְ כּוֹכָב מִֽיַּעֲקֹב וְקָם שֵׁבֶט מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל וּמָחַץ פַּאֲתֵי מוֹאָב וְקַרְקַר כָּל …
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; There shall step forth a star out of Jacob, And a scepter shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of Seth.
- יNumbers 25:14
… הַמֻּכֶּה אֲשֶׁר הֻכָּה אֶת־הַמִּדְיָנִית זִמְרִי בֶּן־סָלוּא נְשִׂיא בֵֽית־אָב …
Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’house among the Simeonites.
- דNumbers 26:19
בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה עֵר וְאוֹנָן וַיָּמָת עֵר וְאוֹנָן בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָֽעַן
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- עNumbers 26:41
אֵלֶּה בְנֵי־בִנְיָמִן לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם וּפְקֻדֵיהֶם חֲמִשָּׁה וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאֽוֹת
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
skip 1,000, width 1,000 — one row is 1,000 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 228,879 of the TorahOpen at skip 1,000 in the laboratory →
- שNumbers 23:27
- שDeuteronomy 32:50
וּמֻת בָּהָר אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה עֹלֶה שָׁמָּה וְהֵאָסֵף אֶל …
and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
- םNumbers 22:37
וַיֹּאמֶר בָּלָק אֶל־בִּלְעָם הֲלֹא שָׁלֹחַ שָׁלַחְתִּי אֵלֶיךָ לִקְרֹא …
And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?’
- יLeviticus 8:24
… מִן־הַדָּם עַל־תְּנוּךְ אָזְנָם הַיְמָנִית וְעַל־בֹּהֶן יָדָם הַיְמָנִית וְעַל …
And Aaron’s sons were brought, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot; and Moses dashed the blood against the altar round about.
- דGenesis 50:4
וַיַּֽעַבְרוּ יְמֵי בְכִיתוֹ וַיְדַבֵּר יוֹסֵף אֶל־בֵּית פַּרְעֹה לֵאמֹר …
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: ‘If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:
- עGenesis 1:29
… לָכֶם אֶת־כָּל־עֵשֶׂב זֹרֵעַ זֶרַע אֲשֶׁר עַל־פְּנֵי כָל־הָאָרֶץ …
And God said: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed—to you it shall be for food;
skip 75,296, width 75,296 — one row is 75,296 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column. letter 302,686 of the TorahOpen at skip 75,296 in the laboratory →
- שDeuteronomy 32:50
Across the Tanakh
The whole Tanakh holds 170,479 sequences of שמידע across every skip (2–299,260), 1.6% above what chance alone gives (about 167,824); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 5.1 × 10⁻¹¹ by chance alone.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 5,461 found · chance alone about 5,560 (probability of 5,461 or more by chance alone: 0.91).
By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip
- Genesis 9,474
- Exodus 9,407
- Leviticus 6,101
- Numbers 9,360
- Deuteronomy 7,239
- Joshua 5,510
- Judges 5,362
- Samuel 12,998
- Kings 15,075
- Isaiah 9,263
- Jeremiah 11,635
- Ezekiel 10,480
- The Twelve 7,744
- Psalms 10,519
- Proverbs 4,139
- Job 4,352
- Song of Songs 775
- Ruth 847
- Lamentations 819
- Ecclesiastes 1,860
- Esther 2,219
- Daniel 2,830
- Ezra–Nehemiah 6,328
- Chronicles 16,143
Outside the Torah
- ש1 Chronicles 2:14
נְתַנְאֵל הָֽרְבִיעִי רַדַּי הַחֲמִישִֽׁי
Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth;
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
- ם י ד ע1 Chronicles 2:15
אֹצֶם הַשִּׁשִּׁי דָּוִיד הַשְּׁבִעִֽי
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.
skip 4, width 4 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 1,099,734 of the TanakhOpen at skip 4 in the laboratory →
- ש1 Chronicles 2:14
- ש1 Kings 4:17
יְהוֹשָׁפָט בֶּן־פָּרוּחַ בְּיִשָׂשכָֽר
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
- ם1 Kings 4:20
יְהוּדָה וְיִשְׂרָאֵל רַבִּים כַּחוֹל אֲשֶׁר־עַל־הַיָּם לָרֹב אֹכְלִים וְשֹׁתִים וּשְׂמֵחִֽים
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
- י1 Kings 5:2
וַיְהִי לֶֽחֶם־שְׁלֹמֹה לְיוֹם אֶחָד שְׁלֹשִׁים כֹּר סֹלֶת וְשִׁשִּׁים כֹּר קָֽמַח
And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;
- ד1 Kings 5:4
כִּי־הוּא רֹדֶה בְּכָל־עֵבֶר הַנָּהָר מִתִּפְסַח וְעַד …
For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides round about him.
- ע1 Kings 5:5
… תַּחַת גַּפְנוֹ וְתַחַת תְּאֵֽנָתוֹ מִדָּן וְעַד־בְּאֵר שָׁבַע כֹּל יְמֵי שְׁלֹמֹֽה …
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
skip 102, width 102 — one row is 102 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 485,691 of the TanakhOpen at skip 102 in the laboratory →
- ש1 Kings 4:17
- ש2 Chronicles 36:3
וַיְסִירֵהוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַיִם בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָם וַֽיַּעֲנֹשׁ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ מֵאָה כִכַּר־כֶּסֶף וְכִכַּר זָהָֽב
And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
- מPsalms 75:1
לַמְנַצֵּחַ אַל־תַּשְׁחֵת מִזְמוֹר לְאָסָף שִֽׁיר
For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.
- יIsaiah 26:2
פִּתְחוּ שְׁעָרִים וְיָבֹא גוֹי־צַדִּיק שֹׁמֵר אֱמֻנִֽים
Open ye the gates, That the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.
- דDeuteronomy 32:7
זְכֹר יְמוֹת עוֹלָם בִּינוּ שְׁנוֹת דּוֹר־וָדוֹר שְׁאַל אָבִיךָ וְיַגֵּדְךָ זְקֵנֶיךָ וְיֹאמְרוּ לָֽךְ
Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations; Ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
- עGenesis 2:18
וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים לֹא־טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָֽאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ אֶֽעֱשֶׂהּ־לּוֹ עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ
And the LORD God said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.’
skip 298,276, width 298,276 — one row is 298,276 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column. letter 1,195,614 of the TanakhOpen at skip 298,276 in the laboratory →
- ש2 Chronicles 36:3
The spelling
שמידע — the Tanakh's own spelling. Searched as שמידע, 5 letters, with a standard gematria value of 424.
As a plain word it stands 2 times in the Tanakh, first at Joshua 17:2. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →
Questions
Does Shemida appear in the Torah codes?
Across every skip (2–76,212), שמידע appears 8,332 times in the Torah; chance alone would give about 8,619, so the count is in line with chance.
What is the shortest skip for Shemida in the Torah?
Skip 5, reading backward from Genesis 23:11 — the shortest of 8,332 sequences across every skip (2–76,212), where chance alone would give about 8,619.
How is Shemida spelled in Hebrew?
Shemida is spelled שמידע — 5 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 424.
Is Shemida in the Bible code across the whole Tanakh?
The whole Tanakh holds 170,479 sequences of שמידע across every skip (2–299,260), 1.6% above what chance alone gives (about 167,824); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 5.1 × 10⁻¹¹ by chance alone.
Search it yourself
The laboratory runs the same search live in your browser — every sequence, the matrix around it, and the chance figure (about 8,619 across every skip (2–76,212) here) beside the count.