the height of the heavens
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SHEMIRAMOTH.A Levitical family (1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20; 1Ch_16:5, 2Ch_17:8).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. A Levite of the second degree appointed to play with a psaltery on alamoth (1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20). In Asaph's division, who led with cymbals (1Ch_16:5).
2. 2Ch_17:8.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
shḗ-mir?a-moth, shḗ-mı̄?ra-mōth, shem-i-rā?mōth (שׁמירמות, shemı̄rāmōth; in 2Ch_17:8, Kethı̄bh שמרימות; Σεμειραμώθ, Semeiramṓth): The name of a Levitical family. In 1Ch_15:18, 1Ch_15:20; 1Ch_16:5 Shemiramoth is listed among the names of David's choirs; in 2Ch_17:8 the same name is given among the Levites delegated by Jehoshaphat to teach the Law in the cities of Judah. According to Schrader (KAT (2), 366) the name is to be identified with the Assyrian Sammuramat; the latter occurs as a woman's name on the monuments, more especially on the statues of Nebo from Nimrod. Another suggestion is that Shemiramoth was originally a place-name meaning ?image of Shemiram? (= name of Ram or ?the Exalted One?).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Shemiramoth', שְׁמַירָמוֹת, name of heights, i.e. Jehovah; Sept. Σμιραμώθ, v.r. Σιμιραμώθ, Σαμειραμώθ, etc.), the name of two Levites.
1. A musician of the second degree in the arrangement of the choral services by David (1Ch_15:18), playing With psalteries on Alamoth (1Ch_15:20), and harps (16:5). B.C. 1043.
2. One of those sent by Jehoshaphat to teach the law throughout the land (2Ch_17:8). B.C. 909.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.