Shelemiah [Shĕle mī'ah]—jehovah is recompense, recompenses or god is my perfection.

1. A Levite, a doorkeeper of the Tabernacle in David’s time (1 Chron. 26:14).
2. One of the sons of Bani who put away his strange wife (Ezra 10:39).
3. Another of the same family who had done the same (Ezra 10:41).
4. The father of the Hananiah who helped to repair the wall (Neh. 3:30).
5. A priest who had charge of the treasuries and distributed money among the Levites (Neh. 13:13).
6. A son of Cushi and grandfather of Jehudi who brought Baruch before the princes of Judah (Jer. 36:14).
7. The son of Abdeel who was ordered by Jehoiakim to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet (Jer. 36:26).
8. The father of Jehucal who was sent by Zedekiah to Jeremiah in order to plead for his prayers (Jer. 37:3; 38:1).
9. The father of Irijah, captain of the guard, who arrested Jeremiah when he was about to leave Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13).