שִׁמְעַתShimʻath
proper name, feminine: mother of one of Joash's murderers (2 Chronicles 24:26; 2 Kings 12:22)
Pronunciation: shim-awth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8100
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 12:21 The assassins were Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer—both trusted advisers. Joash was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Amaziah became the next king.
- 2 Chronicles 24:26 The assassins were Jozacar, the son of an Ammonite woman named Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of a Moabite woman named Shomer.
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).