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Shimron
Watch-post, an ancient city of the Canaanites; with its villages, allotted to Zebulun (Josh 19:15); now probably Semunieh, on the northern edge of the plain of Esdraelon, 5 miles west of Nazareth.
Named in the Bible
5 verses
- Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
- Numbers 26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
- Joshua 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
- Joshua 19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
