Hebrew word · H8016

שִׁלֵּמִי

hashilemi

Shillemite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Someone descended from Shillem who was a man of the tribe of Naphtali living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.24;

son of: Naphtali (H5321);

brother of: Jahzeel (H3183), Guni (H1476) and Jezer (H3337); also called Shallum at 1Ch.7.13; Shillemite at Num.26.49;

Group of shil.lem (שִׁלֵּם "Shillem" H8006)

§ Shillemites, of Shillem "recompense"

descendants of Shillem, a son of Naphtali

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:49 הַשִּׁלֵּמִֽי׃ the Shillemite[s]

    the Jezerite clan from Jezer, and the Shillemite clan from Shillem.

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