שִׁמְעִי
Shimʻîy · shim-ee'
Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8088 (שֵׁמַע); famous;
Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Shimeah (from the margin), Shimei, Shimhi, Shimi.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › the hand that works
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁמְעִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
43 occurrences · 43 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and shimei17 · 40%
- shimei8 · 19%
- of shimei6 · 14%
- was shimei2 · 5%
- for shimei2 · 5%
- and shimi1 · 2%
- shall not shimei1 · 2%
- unto shimei1 · 2%
- and, behold, thou hast with thee shimei1 · 2%
- that shimei1 · 2%
- moreover to shimei1 · 2%
- of shimhi1 · 2%
- to shimei1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.