שִׁמְעִיShimʻîy
Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites
Pronunciation: shim-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8096
Meanings
1. in Benjamin
2. a Ramathite (1 Chronicles 27:27)
3. Levites
a. 'son' of Gershon (Exodus 6:17; Numbers 3:18; 1 Chronicles 6:2)
4. brother of Zerubbabel (1 Chronicles 3:19)
5 in Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:26; 1 Chronicles 4:27)
6. in Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:4)
7. = (II.) שֶׁמַע (1 Chronicles 8:13)
8. post-exilic names
9. grandfather of Mordecai (Esther 2:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 43 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 6:17 The descendants of Gershon included Libni and Shimei, each of whom became the ancestor of a clan.
- Numbers 3:18 The clans descended from Gershon were named after two of his descendants, Libni and Shimei.
- 2 Samuel 16:5 As King David came to Bahurim, a man came out of the village cursing them. It was Shimei son of Gera, from the same clan as Saul’s family.
- 2 Samuel 16:7 “Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel!” he shouted at David.
- 2 Samuel 16:13 So David and his men continued down the road, and Shimei kept pace with them on a nearby hillside, cursing and throwing stones and dirt at David.
- 2 Samuel 19:16 Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin, hurried across with the men of Judah to welcome King David.
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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).