Dictionary entry

SHIMEA

Smith's Bible Dictionary

(fame).

  1. Son of David by Beth-shean. (1 Chronicles 3:5) (B.C. 1045.)
  2. A Merarite Levite. (1 Chronicles 6:30) (15).
  3. A Gershonite Levite, ancestor of Asaph the minstrel. (1 Chronicles 6:39) (24). (B.C. before 1200.)
  4. The brother of David, (1 Chronicles 20:7) elsewhere called Shamma, Shimma and Shimeah.