Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Shimea

(fame).

Son of David by Beth-shean. (1 Chronicles 3:5) (B.C. 1045.)

A Merarite Levite. (1 Chronicles 6:30) (15).

A Gershonite Levite, ancestor of Asaph the minstrel. (1 Chronicles 6:39) (24). (B.C. before 1200.)

The brother of David, (1 Chronicles 20:7) elsewhere called Shamma, Shimma and Shimeah.

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith (1863). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.