HebrewH8070Proper Noun (Masculine)

שְׁמִירָמוֹת

she.mi.ra.mot

4Occurrences
H8070Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shemiramoth, the name of two Israelites

or שְׁמָרִימוֹת; probably from H8034 (שֵׁם) and plural of H7413 (רָמָה); name of heights;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at § Shemiramoth = "name of heights" 1) a Merarite Levite in the second rank in the choir of ) a Levite in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שְׁמִירָמוֹת appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
3
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 15:18BSB

and with them their brothers next in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.

1 Chronicles 15:20BSB

Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to Alamoth.

1 Chronicles 16:5BSB

Asaph was the chief, Zechariah was second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel. They were to play the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals

2 Chronicles 17:8BSB

accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.