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Shimei is the name of a number of persons referenced in the Hebrew Bible
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 and Rabbinical literature.






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Shimei is the name of a number of persons referenced in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
 and Rabbinical literature.
  • The second son of Gershon
    Gershon

    According to the Torah, Gershon was the eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Hebrew Bible times....
     and grandson of Levi
    Levi

    Levi/Levy, Hebrew language#Modern Hebrew Levy ??? Tiberian vocalization ; "joining") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelites of Levites ....
     (Ex. vi. 17; Numbers
    Book of Numbers

    The Book of Numbers, , is the fourth book of the Torah, the Tanakh, and the Old Testament. In the Greek language Septuagint it is called Arithmoi, or Numbers....
     3:18; I Chronicles
    Books of Chronicles

    LocationIn the masoretic text, Chronicles is part of the third part of the Tanakh, namely Ketuvim . In most printed versions it is the last book in Ketuvim ....
     6:17). The family of the Shimeites, as a branch of the tribe of Levi, is mentioned in Numbers 3:18, 21; I Chronicles 23:7, 10, 11 ("Shimei" in verse 9 is evidently a scribal error); and in Zechariah
    Book of Zechariah

    The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh attributed to the prophet Zechariah ....
     12:13.


  • A Benjamite of Bahurim
    Bahurim

    Bahurim was a village east of Jerusalem, on the road to the Jordan valley, close to Mount of Olives.Here also the Levites Jonathan and Ahimaaz hid themselves....
    , son of Gera
    List of minor Biblical figures

    This list contains persons named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections....
    , "a man of the family of the house of Saul
    Saul the King

    Saul is identified in the Books of Samuel, Books of Chronicles and Qur'an as the first king of the ancient united United Monarchy. Saul was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah during the closing decades of the 2nd millennium BC....
    " (II Samuel
    Books of Samuel

    The Books of Samuel are part of the Tanakh and also of the Christianity Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew language, and the Book of Samuel originally formed a single text, as they are often considered today in Hebrew bibles....
     16:5-14, 19:16-23; I Kings
    Books of Kings

    The Books of Kings are a part of Judaism's Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. They were originally written in Hebrew language and were later included by Christianity as part of the Old Testament....
     2:8-9, 36-46). He is mentioned as one of David
    David

    David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
    's tormentors during his flight before Absalom
    Absalom

    Absalom or Avshalom was the third son of David , king of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. He had no sons. describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom....
    , and as imploring and winning David's forgiveness when the latter returned. David, however, in his dying charge to Solomon, bade him avenge the insult (I Kings 2:-9).
  • A friend of David (I Kings 1:8)
  • A brother of David, called also Shammah, Shimeah, and Shimea (I Samuel 16:9, 17:13; II Samuel 13:3, 21:21; I Chronicles 2:13, 20:7)
  • One of Solomon's prefect
    Prefect

    Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.A prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-Roman cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa....
    s, over the district of Benjamin (I Kings 4:18)
  • A grandson of Jeconiah
    Jeconiah

    Jeconiah , also known as Jehoiachin , was a king of Judah. He was the son of Jehoiakim with Nehushta, the daughter of List of minor Biblical figures of Jerusalem and was a contemporary of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel....
     and brother of Zerubbabel
    Zerubbabel

    Zerubbabel was a governor of Judah and the grandson of Jehoiachin, penultimate king of Judah. Zerubbabel led the first band of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian captivity of Judah in the first year of Cyrus the Great, King of Persia ....
     (I Chronicles 3:19)
  • A grandson of Simeon
    Simeon

    Simeon, or Shimon is a given name, from the Hebrew . In Greek, it is written S??e??, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon....
    , who is described as the father sixteen sons and six daughters, and whose clan dwelt in southern Palestine
    Palestine

    Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
     (I Chronicles 4:26, 27)
  • A Reuben
    Reuben

    Reuben or Ruben may refer to:*Reuben *Reuben sandwich*Reuben , a British rock band*Reuben , a character in Lilo & Stitch: The Series...
    ite (I Chronicles 5:4)
  • Levites (I Chronicles vi. 6:29, 42; 25:17; II Chronicles 29:14; 31:12, 13)
  • A Benjamite chief (I Chronicles 8:21, R. V.; comp. ib. v. 13)
  • "The Ramathite," one of David's officers (I Chronicles 27:27)
  • A Levite and other Israelites whom Ezra
    Ezra

    Ezra was a Jewish priestly scribe who led about 5,000 Babylonian captivity living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem in 459 BC. Ezra reconstituted the dispersed Jewish community on the basis of the Torah and with an emphasis on the law....
     required to put away their foreign wives (Ezra
    Book of Ezra

    The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and Hebrew language Tanakh. It is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian captivity....
     10:23, 33, 38)
  • Grandfather of Mordecai
    Mordecai

    Mordecai or Mordechai - the son of Jair , of the tribe of Benjamin, is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible....
     (Esther
    Book of Esther

    The Book of Esther is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. The Book of Esther or the Megillah is the basis for the Jewish celebration of Purim....
     2:5).