Lexicon Shumathi: a family of Kiriath-jearim Original Word: שֻׁמָתִיPart of Speech: Proper Name Transliteration: Shumathi Phonetic Spelling: (shoo-maw-thee') Short Definition: Shumathites NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona family of Kiriath-jearim NASB TranslationShumathites (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ שֻׁמָה] proper name, masculine whence שֻׁמָתִי adjective, of a people in Caleb, with article as collective noun ׳הַשּׁ 1 Chronicles 2:53; Ησαμαθειμ[ν], δ Σαμαθι. שׁמה (apparently √ of following; Sta§324 a.; so Thes, compare Arabic  be high, lofty (or is this secondary?); JenKosmol. (1890), 6 compare Assyrian šamû, id. (>šamû = sparkle, IdZK ii (1885), 53); compare DlWB).
Strong's Shumathites Patronymically from an unused name from shuwm probably meaning garlic-smell; a Shumathite (collectively) or descendants of Shumah -- Shumathites. see HEBREW shuwm |
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