Person Old Testament
Shemaiah
Shemaiah, a descendant of Simeon, son of Shimri. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 4:37.
Why it matters. Descendant of Simeon
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Shemaiah
Shemaiah is mentioned in 1Ch.4.37 as a descendant of Simeon, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He is identified as the son of Shimri in the genealogy of the Simeonites.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Children
- Shimri
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
1 Chronicles (1 verse)