name of force; name of the strong
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SHEMEBER.King of Zeboiim (Gen_14:2).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
King of Zeboim; ally of the king of Sodom, when attacked by Chedorlaomer.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Sheme'ber. (lofty flight). King of Zeboim, and ally of the king of Sodom, when he was attacked by Chedorlaomer. (B.C. 1912).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shem-ē?bẽr, shem?ḗ-bẽr (שׁמאבר, shem'ēbher): The king of Zeboiim (Gen_14:2). See SHINAB.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Sheme?ber (lofty flight), king of Zeboim, one of the five 'cities of the plain' (Gen_14:2).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
[many Sheme'ber] (Heb. id. שֶׁמְאֵבֶר, lofty flight [Gesenius], or splendor of heroism [Furst]; Sept. Σομοβόρ; Josephus, Συμόβορος, Ant. 9, 1), the king of Zeboim (q.v.) at the time of the attack of Sodom by Chedorlaomer (Gen_14:2). B. cir. 2088.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.