שִׁמְרִי
shim.ri
Shimri
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word שִׁמְרִי (shim.ri) serves as a proper name, identifying a specific individual. It's derived from the lemma Shimri, which appears only once in the entire Hebrew Bible. As a proper name of a person, its meaning is unique to the historical or cultural context in which it's used. We cannot infer its meaning from its constituent parts or derive a broader significance from its occurrence. Without more data, the word's range of usage is limited to this singular instance in the biblical text. Given its occurrence as a proper name, Shimri's significance is primarily tied to the historical or narrative context of the biblical passage in which it's found. Without additional information about the passage or its broader significance, we can only conclude that Shimri is a personal name associated with that specific context.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text