שִׁמְעָאShimʻâʼ
שִׁמְעָא: 1.
Pronunciation: shim-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8092
Meanings
brother of David (2 Samuel 21:21; 1 Chronicles 20:7; 1 Chronicles 2:13)
2. son of David (1 Chronicles 3:5)
3. Levites
שִׁמְעָה: proper name, masculine: see שִׁמְעָא 1 above
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 2:13 Jesse’s first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 3:5 The sons born to David in Jerusalem included Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. Their mother was Bathsheba, the daughter of Ammiel.
- 1 Chronicles 6:30 Shimea, Haggiah, and Asaiah.
- 1 Chronicles 6:39 Heman’s first assistant was Asaph from the clan of Gershon. Asaph’s genealogy was traced back through Berekiah, Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 20:7 But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David’s brother Shimea.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).