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Shomer

 

Shomer - (keeper).

1. An Asherite, (1 Chronicles 7:32) also called Shamer. ver. (1 Chronicles 7:34)

2. The father (mother ?) of Jehozabad who slew King Joash. (2 Kings 12:21) In the parallel passage in (2 Chronicles 24:26) the name is converted into the feminine form Shimrith, who is further described as a Moabitess. [Shimrith] (B.C. 839.)
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