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HebrewH8096Proper Noun (Masculine)

שִׁמְעִי

shim.i

32Occurrences
H8096Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites

from H8088 (שֵׁמַע); famous;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Gershon (H1648); brother of: Libni (H3845G); father of: Jahath (H3189I), Zizah (H2126), Jeush (H3266J) and Beriah (H1283J) Also named: shim.i (*שִׁמְעִי *"Shimeite" H8097) § Shimei or Shimhi or Shimi or Shimea = "renowned" 1) a Benjamite, son of Gera of the house of Saul in the time of ) a Benjamite, son of Elah and commissariat officer in the time of Solomon 3) the Ramathite in charge of the vineyards of ) son of Gershon and grandson of ) a Levite, son of Jeduthun and chief of the 10th division of singers in the time of ) a Levite of the sons of Heman who took part in the purification of the temple in the time of king Hezekiah of ) a Levite, brother of Cononiah in charge of receiving the tithes and offerings in the reign of king Hezekiah of ) a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of ) a Judaite, son of Pedaiah and brother of Zerubbabel 10) a Simeonite, son of Zacchur 11) a Reubenite, son of Gog and father of ) one of the sons of Hashum who had a foreign wife in the time of ) one of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of ) a Benjamite, son of Kish, father of Jair, and grandfather of Mordecai in the time of Esther 15) a Levite, son of Jahath, grandson of Gershon, and great grandson of ) Benjamite, father of Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath. Spelled 'Shimhi'

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שִׁמְעִי appears 32 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
10
1 Kings
10
2 Chronicles
3
2 Samuel
3
Ezra
3
Esther
1
Exodus
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 23:7BSB

The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 4:26BSB

The sons of Mishma:Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei.

1 Kings 2:36BSB

Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.

1 Kings 2:44BSB

The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

2 Samuel 16:7BSB

And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

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