Bible Names

Shimeah: meaning of the name

Shimeah means “Shimeath, that hears, or obeys; perdition.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shimeah in Hebrew and Greek

שִׁמְעָה H8093

Shimʻâh (shim-aw') — Shimah, an Israelite

feminine of H8088 (שֵׁמַע); annunciation;

Who named Shimeah in the Bible

Shimeah in Scripture

“Shimeah” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Samuel 13:3

    But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

  • 2 Samuel 13:32

    And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:32

    And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.