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title: שִׁמְעֹנִי — tribe of Simeon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁמְעֹנִי (8099), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: tribe of Simeon. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁמְעֹנִי

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«שִׁמְעֹנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tribe of Simeon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 8099 · **BDB:** שִׁמְעוֹנִי

### Glosses

Simeonite\[s\] (2); the.Simeonite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tribe of Simeon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8099/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8099/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. as n.coll., Nu 25:14; 26:14 1 Ch 27:16; מַטֵּה הַשּׁ׳ Jos 21:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁמְעֹנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8099/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.14/)

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אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַשִּׁמְעֹנִ֑י שְׁנַ֧יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וּמָאתָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.clans of the.Simeonite\[s\] two and twenty thousand and two.hundred

*JPS 1917:* These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

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[1 Chronicles 27:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.16/)

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וְעַל֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֣י נָגִ֔יד אֱלִיעֶ֖זֶר בֶּן־זִכְרִ֑יס לַשִּׁ֨מְעוֹנִ֔י שְׁפַטְיָ֖הוּ בֶּֽן־מַעֲכָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and over the.tribes of.Israel for the Reubenite\[s\] \[was\].chief Eliezer the.son of.Zikri for the Simeonite\[s\] Shephatiah the.son of.Maacah

*JPS 1917:* Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

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