Person Old Testament
Shimei
Shimei was an Israelite who had married a foreign wife during the Babylonian exile and agreed to send her away. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:33.
Why it matters. Israelite who married a foreign wife during the exile.
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Shimei
Shimei is mentioned in Ezr.10.33 as one of the Israelites who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile. After the return to Jerusalem, Ezra the scribe led a religious reform that required the Israelites to separate themselves from their foreign wives to maintain the purity of the nation. Shimei, along with several other Israelites, was found to have married a foreign woman. As part of the reform, Shimei agreed to send away his foreign wife, demonstrating his commitment to following God's law and maintaining the religious and cultural identity of the Israelites.
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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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)