Bible Names

Shomer: meaning of the name

Shomer means “keeper; dregs.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Shomer in Hebrew and Greek

שׁוֹמֵר H7763

Shôwmêr (sho-mare') — Shomer, the name of two Israelites

or שֹׁמֵר; active participle of H8104 (שָׁמַר); keeper;

Shomer in Scripture

“Shomer” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 12:21

    For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:32

    And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.