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# שֹׁומֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7763

**Shomer** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shomer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7763/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁמֵר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7763/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of one of Joash’s murderers 2 K 12:21, Σωμηρ, 𝔊L Σεμμηρ (called שִׁמְרִית q.v., a Moabitess, ‖ 2 Ch 24:26). Asherite 1 Ch 7:32, Σαμηρ, Σωμηρ; = שֶׁמֵר 2 b.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shomer (1); of Shomer (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.32/#tree)

וְחֶ֙בֶר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יַפְלֵ֔ט וְאֶת־שׁוֹמֵ֖ר וְאֶת־חוֹתָ֑ם וְאֵ֖ת שׁוּעָ֥א אֲחוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Heber he.fathered (et) Japhlet and (et) Shomer and (et) Hotham and (et) Shua sister their

*JPS 1917:* And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

[2 Kings 12:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.22/#tree)

וְיוֹזָבָ֣ד בֶּן־שִׁ֠מְעָת וִיהוֹזָבָ֨ד בֶּן־שֹׁמֵ֤ר ׀ עֲבָדָיו֙ הִכֻּ֣הוּ וַיָּמֹ֔ת וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ עִם־אֲבֹתָ֖יו בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אֲמַצְיָ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and Jozabad the.son of.Shimeath and Jehozabad the.son of.Shomer servants his they struck.him.down and he.died and people.buried him with ancestors his in the.city of.David and he.became.king Amaziah son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7763/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).