- Original: שׁמעי
- Transliteration: Shim`iy
- Phonetic: shim-ee'
- Definition: Shimei or Shimhi or Shimi or Shimea = renowned
1. a Benjamite, son of Gera of the house of Saul in the time of David
2. a Benjamite, son of Elah and commissariat officer in the time of Solomon
3. the Ramathite in charge of the vineyards of David
4. son of Gershon and grandson of Levi
5. a Levite, son of Jeduthun and chief of the 10th division of singers in the time of David
6. a Levite of the sons of heman who took part in the purification of the temple in the time of king hezekiah of Judah
7. a Levite, brother of Cononiah in charge of receiving the tithes and offerings in the reign of king hezekiah of Judah
8. a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
9. a Judaite, son of Pedaiah and brother of Zerubbabel
10. a Simeonite, son of Zacchur
11. a Reubenite, son of Gog and father of Micah
12. one of the sons of Hashum who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
13. one of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
14. a Benjamite, son of Kish, father of Jair, and grandfather of Mordecai in the time of Esther
15. a Levite, son of Jahath, grandson of Gershon, and great grandson of Levi
16. Benjamite, father of Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath. Spelled 'Shimhi'
- Origin: from
H8088
- TWOT entry: None
- Part(s) of speech: Proper Name Masculine
- Strong's: From
H8088 ; famous;
Shimi the name of twenty Israelites: - Shimeah [from the margin] Shimei Shimhi Shimi.
Total KJV Occurrences: 43
• Shimei, 41
Numbers 3:18;
2 Samuel 16:5;
2 Samuel 16:7;
2 Samuel 16:13;
2 Samuel 19:16;
2 Samuel 19:18;
2 Samuel 19:21;
2 Samuel 19:23;
1 Kings 1:8;
1 Kings 2:8;
1 Kings 2:36;
1 Kings 2:38(2);
1 Kings 2:39(2);
1 Kings 2:40(2);
1 Kings 2:41;
1 Kings 2:42;
1 Kings 2:44;
1 Kings 4:18;
1 Chronicles 3:19;
1 Chronicles 4:26;
1 Chronicles 4:27;
1 Chronicles 5:4;
1 Chronicles 6:17;
1 Chronicles 6:29;
1 Chronicles 6:42;
1 Chronicles 23:7;
1 Chronicles 23:9;
1 Chronicles 23:10(2);
1 Chronicles 25:17;
1 Chronicles 27:27;
2 Chronicles 29:14;
2 Chronicles 31:12;
2 Chronicles 31:13;
Ezra 10:23;
Ezra 10:33;
Ezra 10:38;
Esther 2:5
• Shimhi, 1
1 Chronicles 8:21
• Shimi, 1
Exodus 6:17