Shimei

Shimei (Hebrew: שִׁמְעִי Šīmʿī) is the name of a number of persons referenced in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinical literature.

Shimei curses David, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld

Family tree

LeviAdinah[a]
GershonKehathMerari
LibniShimeiIzharHebronUzzielMahliMushi
Jochebed[b]AmramMishaelElzaphanZithri
MiriamAaronMosesZipporah
GershomEliezer
  1. ^ In the Masoretic Text, Levi's wife is not named. She is called Adina in the Septuagint and Adinah in the Book of Jasher (Chapter 45, Verse 5-6), which also says that she was a daughter of Jobab, the son of Yoktan, the son of Eber.
  2. ^ Jochebed is described as Levi's daughter, and thus her husband Amram's aunt, in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 26:59), the Masoretic Text of Exodus 6:20 and the Book of Jasher (Chapter 67, Verse 2-3). However, some manuscripts of the Septuagint Book of Exodus instead call her Amram's father's cousin, and others state that she was Amram's cousin.

References

  1. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), "Shimei."