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Shimeath
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or SHIMEATH . A name given to the father or mother of one of the murderers of Joash ( 2 Kings 12:21 , 2 Chronicles 24:26 ). The murderer himself is called Zabad in 2 Ch. and Jozacar in 2Kings. Probably for Zabad in 2 Ch. we ought to read Jehozabad , and undoubtedly Jozacar and Jehozabad are identical, and by scribal repetition (dittography) we have the two really identical names and the varying forms Shimeath , Shimrith , and Shomer . The descriptions ‘Ammonitess’ and ‘Moabitess’ in 2 Ch. are certainly later embellishments of the story, and Shimeath was probably the father of the one murderer, Jehozabad, and an Israelite. The Shimeathites were a family or division of the tribe of Caleb ( 1 Chronicles 2:55 ). They may be included in the description ‘the families of the scribes, which dwelt at Jabez,’ but the whole passage leaves us uncertain. The Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] regards the name as referring to the function of a section of the scribes ( resonantes ) after the Exile.
W. F. Boyd.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Shimeath'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/shimeath.html. 1909.
