thorn; dregs
(same as Shimri, Shimrith)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SHIMRON.1. The fourth son of Issachar (Gen_46:18, Num_26:24 (20), 1Ch_7:1); gentilic Shimronites in Num_26:24 (20). 2. One of the towns whose kings Jabin called to his assistance (Jos_11:1). It was afterwards allotted to the tribe of Zebulun (Jos_19:15). Its site is unknown. Cf. next article.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Shim'ron. (watch-height).
1. A city of Zebulun. Jos_11:1; Jos_19:15. Its full appellation was, perhaps, Shimron-meron.
2. The fourth son of Issachar, according to the lists of Genesis, Gen_46:13, and Numbers, Num_26:24, and the head of the family of the Shimronites.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
(Heb. Shimron', שַׁמְרוֹן, watch-height), the name of a man and also of a place, SEE SHIMRON-MERON.
1. (Sept. Σαμαράμ v. r. Σαμβράν, etc.). Last named of the four sons of Issachar (Gen_46:13; 1Ch_7:1," Shimrom" in later editions). and head of the family of the Shimrunites (Num_26:24). B.C. 1874.
2. (Sept. Σομερών v. r. Σεμερών and Συμεών.) A town of Zebulon (Jos_19:15, where it is named between Nahallal and Idalah),one of those which joined the northern confederacy under Jabin against Joshua. Jos_11:5), and apparently the same elsewhere (12:20) more fully called Shimron-meron (q.v.). Eusebius and Jerome in the Onomasticon confound it with Samaria. The old Jewish traveller Hap-Parchi fixes it at two hours east of Engannim (Jenin), south of the mountains of Gilboa, at a village called in his day Dar Meron (Ashier, Benjamin, ii, 434). This is in. accordance with the tradition existing among the Jews of Safed that Shimron-meron is identical with the sacred village of Meiron, where the tombs of the rabbins Hillel and Shammai are still preserved and honored (Wilson, Lands of the Bible, ii,3 13). Schwarz, with greater probability (see Reland, Palest. p. 1017, Gesenius, Thes. Heb. p. 1445), proposes (Palest. p. 172) to identify it with the Simonias of Josephus (Life, § 24), now Siminlyveh, a. village a few miles west of Nazareth, which is mentioned in the Talmud (Jerus. Megillah, c. 1) as the ancient Shimron.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.