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# שֶׁמֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8106

**Shamer** — 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

Shamer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8106/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫מֶר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8106/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (proposes clan-name, cf. StaZAW v (1885), 166f., cf. Sab. שמר Os 13, but NAram شِمْر DHMZMG xxxvii (1885). 14 SabDenkm 30);—Σεμ(μ)ηρ, etc.: שׁ׳ orig. owner of hill where Sam. was built 1 K 16:24(×2). שָׁ֑מֶר: Levite 1 Ch 6:31. in Asher 7:34, A 𝔊L Σωμηρ; = שֹׁמֵר v 32. in Benj. 8:12 van d. H.; \> שֶׁמֶד q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 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: of Shemer (3); Shemer (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.31/#tree)

בֶּן־אַמְצִ֥י בֶן־בָּנִ֖י בֶּן־שָֽׁמֶר׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Amzi the.son of.Bani the.son of.Shemer

*JPS 1917:* the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer;

[1 Chronicles 7:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.34/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י שָׁ֑מֶר אֲחִ֥י וְרָהְגָּ֖ה וְחֻבָּ֥ה וַאֲרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Shemer \[were\].Ahi and Rohgah and Hubbah and Aram

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, and Hubbah, and Aram.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8106.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8106/): 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).