Hebrew word · H8106

שֶׁ֫מֶר

shemer

Shemer

Appears 5 times in 4 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.16.24

§ Shemer or Shamer = "preserved"

1) the owner of the hill where the city of Samaria was built

2) a Merarite Levite, son of Mahli and father of Bani

3) an Asherite, son of Heber and father of Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. Also 'Shomer'

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

Where it appears

1 Kings · 2

  1. 1 Kings 16:24 שֶׁ֖מֶר שֶׁ֔מֶר Shemer

    He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.

1 Chronicles · 3

  1. 1 Chronicles 6:46 שָֽׁמֶר׃ Shemer

    the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

  2. 1 Chronicles 7:34 שָׁ֑מֶר Shemer

    The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.

  3. 1 Chronicles 8:12 וָשָׁ֑מֶד and Shemed

    The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages),

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