keeper; dregs
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SHOMER.1. 1Ch_7:32. See Shemer, No. 3, 2. 2Ki_12:21. See Shimeath.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. (See SHAMER.)
2. Father of Jehozabad. Shimrith is given as the mother in 2Ch_24:26. (See SHIMRITH Keil conjectures that Shomer is a transcriber's error from omitting -th, or else that Shomer was grandfather of Jehozabad.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Sho'mer. (keeper).
1. An Asherite, 1Ch_7:32, also called Shamer. 1Ch_7:34.
2. The father (mother ?) of Jehozabad, who slew King Joash. 2Ki_12:21. In the parallel passage in 2Ch_24:26, the name is converted into the feminine form Shimrith, who is further described as a Moabitess. (B.C. 839). See Shamer; Shimrith.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shō?mẽr (שׁומר, shōmēr):
(1) The father of one of the conspirators who killed Joash (2Ki_12:21). See SHIMEATH.
(2) One of the sons of Heber of the tribe of Asher (1Ch_7:32). See SHEMER.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Shomer', שׁוֹמֵר, keeper, as often; Sept. Σωμήρ v.r. Σαμήρ, etc.), a variation for the names of two Hebrews.
1. Second named of the three sons of Heber, an Asherite (1Ch_7:32); called SHAMER SEE SHAMER (q.v.) in 1Ch_7:34, where his sons are enumerated.
2. The father of Jehozabad, who slew king Joash (2Ki_12:21); in the parallel passage in 2Ch_24:26, the name is converted into the feminine form SHIMRITH SEE SHIMRITH (q.v.), who is further described as a Moabitess. This variation may have originated in the dubious gender of the preceding name Shimeath, which is also made feminine by the chronicler. Others suppose that in Kings the father is named, and in Chronicles the mother.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.