Hebrew word · H8101

שִׁמְעָתִים

shim'atim

Shimeathite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 30, 2026

What it means

§ Shimeathites =see Shimeath "report"

a family of scribes

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

1 Chronicles · 1

1 Chronicles 2:55 שִׁמְעָתִ֖ים Shimeathites

and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

Here: The second clan. The name sounds like shamaʿ, 'to hear', and later interpreters read it as 'those who listen (to the Law)'. It may simply come from an ancestor called Shimeah.

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