Bible Names

Shemer: meaning of the name

Shemer means “guardian; thorn.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shemer in Hebrew and Greek

שֶׁמֶר H8106

Shemer (sheh'-mer) — Shemer, the name of three Israelites

the same as H8105 (שֶׁמֶר);

Who named Shemer in the Bible

Shemer in Scripture

“Shemer” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 16:24

    And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.