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# שִׁמְעִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8096

**Shimeah (from the margin)** — used 43 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

Shimeah (from the margin) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8096/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְעִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8096/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** I. שִׁמְעִי43 n.pr.m. usually Σεμεει: in Benj.: 2 S 16:5, 7, 13; 19:17, 19, 22, 24, 1 K 2:8 + 10 times 1 K 2. 1 K 1:8, perhaps = 4:18. a Ramathite 1 Ch 27:27. Levites: ‘son’ of Gershon Ex 6:17 Nu 3:18 1 Ch 6:2; 23:7, 9, 10(×2). 6:14. v 27. 25:17 2 Ch 29:14. 31:12, 13. Ezr 10:23. brother of Zerub. 1 Ch 3:19. in Simeon 4:26, 27. in Reuben 5:4. 1 Ch 8:13 = (ii.) שֶׁמַע v 13. post-ex. names: Ezr 10:33. v 38 (cf. 3 g supr.). grandfather of Mordecai Est 2:5. 2 S 21:21 Kt (Qr שִׁמְעָא q.v. 1).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 31 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shimei (35); of Shimei (6); \[was\] Shimei (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.18/#tree)

שִׁמְעִ֥י בֶן־אֵלָ֖א בְּבִנְיָמִֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* Shimei the.son of.Ela in Benjamin

*JPS 1917:* Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

[Ezra 10:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.38/#tree)

וּבָנִ֥י וּבִנּ֖וּי שִׁמְעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Bani and Binnui Shimei

*JPS 1917:* and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8096.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8096/): 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).