Reference: Shimeath
Hastings
A name given to the father or mother of one of the murderers of Joash (2Ki 12:21; 2Ch 24:26). The murderer himself is called Zabad in 2 Ch. and Jozacar in 2Kings. Probably for Zabad in 2 Ch. we ought to read Jehozabad, and undoubtedly Jozacar and Jehozabad are identical, and by scribal repetition (dittography) we have the two really identical names and the varying forms Shimeath, Shimrith, and Shomer. The descriptions 'Ammonitess' and 'Moabitess' in 2 Ch. are certainly later embellishments of the story, and Shimeath was probably the father of the one murderer, Jehozabad, and an Israelite. The Shimeathites were a family or division of the tribe of Caleb (1Ch 2:55). They may be included in the description 'the families of the scribes, which dwelt at Jabez,' but the whole passage leaves us uncertain. The Vulgate regards the name as referring to the function of a section of the scribes (resonantes) after the Exile.
W. F. Boyd.
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Smith
Shim'eath
(feminine of Shimeah), an Ammonitess, mother of Jozachar or Zabad, one of the murderers of King Joash.
(22); 2Chr 24:26 (B.C. 809.)