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Shemer

Mentioned in 924 BC traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 1 verse, 1 Kings 16:24.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

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Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Shemer, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Samaria1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 949–899 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

1 tagged verse in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 1 Kings1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBShemer 4
KJVShemer 2
ASVShemer 4

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 1 tagged verse, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Kings1 verse
  1. 16:24

    He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.