Hebrew word · H8093

שִׁמְעָה

shim'ah

Shimeah

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.16.9;

son of: Jesse (H3448);

brother of: David (H1732), Eliab (H0446I), Abinadab (H0041I), Nethanel (H5417H), Raddai (H7288), Ozem (H0684), Zeruiah (H6870), Abigail (H0026H)(?) and Elihu (H0453J);

father of: Jonadab (H3122); also called Shimei (KJV: Shimea) at 2Sa.21.21; Shammah at 1Sa.16.9; 17.13; Shimea at 1Ch.2.13; 20.7;

§ Shimeah = "fame"

1) brother of David, the 3rd son of Jesse

1a) also 'Shammah', and 'Shimma'

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

2 Samuel · 3

  1. 2 Samuel 13:3 שִׁמְעָ֖ה Shimeah

    Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

  2. 2 Samuel 13:32 שִׁמְעָ֨ה Shimeah

    But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.

  3. 2 Samuel 21:21 שִׁמְעָ֖ה Shimeah

    and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.

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