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# שִׁמְעֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8099

**tribe of Simeon** — used 4 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

tribe of Simeon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8099/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְעוֹנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8099/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. as n.coll., Nu 25:14; 26:14 1 Ch 27:16; מַטֵּה הַשּׁ׳ Jos 21:4.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.14/#tree)

אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַשִּׁמְעֹנִ֑י שְׁנַ֧יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וּמָאתָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.clans of the.Simeonite\[s\] two and twenty thousand and two.hundred

*JPS 1917:* These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

[1 Chronicles 27:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.16/#tree)

וְעַל֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֣י נָגִ֔יד אֱלִיעֶ֖זֶר בֶּן־זִכְרִ֑יס לַשִּׁ֨מְעוֹנִ֔י שְׁפַטְיָ֖הוּ בֶּֽן־מַעֲכָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and over the.tribes of.Israel for the Reubenite\[s\] \[was\].chief Eliezer the.son of.Zikri for the Simeonite\[s\] Shephatiah the.son of.Maacah

*JPS 1917:* Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8099.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8099/): 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).