Skip to content
The Historic Faith
Strong's Concordance
Hebrew Word Study

Strong's H8096 שִׁמְעִי (shimi)

Shim`iy - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Strong's Number H8096
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 8

Strong's H8096 Quick Answer

Strong's H8096 שִׁמעִי (Shim`iy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Shim`iy (shim-ee') n/p. 1. famous 2. Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites It has 39 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include name and shimi. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Shim`iy (shim-ee') n/p. 1. famous 2. Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
8 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
name and shimi

Meaning and Definition

Shim`iy (shim-ee') n/p. 1. famous 2. Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites [from H8088] KJV: Shimeah (from the margin), Shimei, Shimhi, Shimi. Root(s): H8088

Original Word
שִׁמעִי
Transliteration
Shim`iy
Derivation
First root strongs: 8088
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8096. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Shimei

Usage: A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.6.17; son of: Gershon (H1648); brother of: Libni (H3845G);

father of: Jahath (H3189I), Zizah (H2126), Jeush (H3266J) and Beriah (H1283J) Also named: shim.i (שִׁמְעִי "Shimeite" H8097) § 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'

STEPBible · Tyndale House, Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

How Strong's H8096 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Shim`iy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

name 2 Samuel 16:5 Shimi Exodus 6:17

How Strong's H8096 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8096 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H8096 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 6:17 KJV

The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

Numbers 3:18 KJV

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

2 Samuel 16:5 KJV

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8096.

Exodus 6:17 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
Numbers 3:18 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
2 Samuel 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
2 Samuel 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
2 Samuel 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
2 Samuel 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
2 Samuel 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
2 Samuel 19:21 Old Testament, KJV
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?
2 Samuel 19:23 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
1 Kings 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
1 Kings 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings 2:36 Old Testament, KJV
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
1 Kings 2:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
1 Kings 2:39 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
1 Kings 2:40 Old Testament, KJV
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
1 Kings 2:41 Old Testament, KJV
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
1 Kings 2:42 Old Testament, KJV
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
1 Kings 2:44 Old Testament, KJV
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
1 Kings 4:18 Old Testament, KJV
Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
1 Chronicles 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
1 Chronicles 4:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
1 Chronicles 4:27 Old Testament, KJV
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
1 Chronicles 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
1 Chronicles 6:17 Old Testament, KJV
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 6:29 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
1 Chronicles 6:42 Old Testament, KJV
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
1 Chronicles 8:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
1 Chronicles 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
1 Chronicles 23:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
1 Chronicles 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles 27:27 Old Testament, KJV
And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
2 Chronicles 29:14 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
2 Chronicles 31:12 Old Testament, KJV
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
2 Chronicles 31:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
Ezra 10:23 Old Testament, KJV
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Ezra 10:33 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
Ezra 10:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Esther 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8096, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 10 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 13 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 3 usages, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8096 FAQ

What does shimi (שִׁמְעִי) mean?

Shimi (Strong's H8096) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Shimi". Shim`iy (shim-ee') n/p. 1. famous 2. Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites

How many times is shimi (שִׁמְעִי) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H8096 across 8 books.

Where can I study shimi (שִׁמְעִי) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8096 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shimi (שִׁמְעִי)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as name and shimi. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.