Smith's Bible Dictionary

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SHILONITE, THE

that is, the native or resident of Shiloh; a title ascribed only to Ahijah. (1 Kings 11:29; 12:15; 15:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29; 10:15)

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SHILONITES, THE

are mentioned among the descendants of Judah dwelling in Jerusalem at a date difficult to (1 Chronicles 8:5) They are doubtless the members of the house of Shelah, who in the Pe...

273

SHILSHAH

(strong), son of Zophah of the tribe of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:37) (B.C. before 1015.)

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SHIMEA

(fame).Son of David by Beth-shean. (1 Chronicles 3:5) (B.C. 1045.)A Merarite Levite. (1 Chronicles 6:30) (15).A Gershonite Levite, ancestor of Asaph the minstrel. (1 Chronicles ...

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SHIMEAH

Brother of David, and father of Jonathan and Jonadab, (2 Samuel 21:21) called also Shammah, Shimea, and Shimma. (B.C. about 1060.)A descendant of Jehiel, the father or founder o...

276

SHIMEAM

(their fame), a descendant of Jehiel, the founder or prince of Gibeon. (1 Chronicles 9:38) Called SHIMEAH in (1 Chronicles 8:32)

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SHIMEATH

(feminine of Shimeah), an Ammonitess, mother of Jozachar or Zabad, one of the murderers of King Joash. (2 Kings 12:21) (22); 2Chr 24:26 (B.C. 809.)

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SHIMEI

(renowned).Son of Gershon the son of Levi, (Numbers 3:18; 1 Chronicles 6:17,29; 23:7,9,10; Zechariah 12:13) called SHIMI in (Exodus 6:17) (B.C. after 1706.)Shimei the son of Ger...

279

SHIMEON

(hearing (prayer), a lay man of Israel, of the family of Harim, who had married a foreign wife, and divorced her in the time of Ezra. (Ezra 10:31) (B.C. 458.)

280

SHIMHI

(renowned), a Benjamite, apparently the same as Shema the son of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:21)

281

SHIMI

= SHIMEI, 1. (Exodus 6:17)

282

SHIMITES, THE

the descendants of Shimei the son of Gershon. (Numbers 3:21)

283

SHIMON

(desert). The four sons of Shimon are enumerated in an obscure genealogy of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:20)

284

SHIMRATH

(guard), a Benjamite, of the sons of Shimhi. (1 Chronicles 8:21)

285

SHIMRI

(vigilant).A Simeonite son of Shemaiah. (1 Chronicles 4:37) (B.C. after 1450.)The father of Jediael, one of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:45) (B.C. before 1043.)A Kohathite Le...

286

SHIMRITH

(feminine of Shimri, vigilant), a Moabitess, mother of Jehozabad, one of the assassins of King Joash. (2 Chronicles 24:26) In (2 Kings 12:21) she is called SHOMER. (B.C. 839.)

287

SHIMROM

(1 Chronicles 7:1) [SHIMRON]

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SHIMRON

(watch-height).A city of Zebulun. (Joshua 11:1; 19:15) Its full appellation was perhaps Shimron-meron.The fourth son of Issachar according to the lists of Genesis, (Genesis 46:1...

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SHIMRONITES, THE

[SHIMRON]

290

SHIMRONMERON

(watch-height of Meron). The king of Shimron-meron is mentioned as one of the thirty-one kings vanquished by Joshua. (Joshua 12:20) It is probably the complete name of the place...

291

SHIMSHAI, OR SHIMSHAI

(sunny), the scribe or secretary of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province of Judea and of the colony of Samaria, supported by the Persian court. (Ezra 4:8,13...

292

SHINAB

(splendor of the father, i.e. God), the king of Admah in the time of Abraham. (Genesis 14:2) (B.C. 1912.)

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SHINAR

(country of two rivers), the ancient name of the great alluvial tract through which the Tigris and Euphrates pass before reaching the sea --the tract known in later times as Cha...

294

SHIP

No one writer in the whole range of Greek and Roman literature has supplied us with so much information concerning the merchant-ships of the ancients as St. Luke in the narrativ...

295

SHIPHI

(abundant), a Simeonite, father of Ziza, a prince of the tribe in the time of Hezekiah. (1 Chronicles 4:37) (B.C. 726.)

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SHIPHMITE THE

probably, though not certainly, the native of Shepham. (1 Chronicles 27:27)

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SHIPHRAH

(brightness), (Exodus 1:15) the name of one of the two midwives of the Hebrews who disobeyed the command of Pharaoh to kill the mule children. vs. (Exodus 1:15-21) (B.C. 1570.)