From shema'; famous; Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites -- Shimeah (from the margin), Shimei, Shimhi, Shimi.
see HEBREW shema'
H8096. Shimi
I. שִׁמְעִי43 proper name, masculine usually Σευεει:
1 in Benjamin:
a. 2 Samuel 16:5, 7, 13; 19:17; 19:19; 19:22; 19:24, 1 Kings 2:8 10t. 1Kings 2..
b. 1 Kings 1:8, perhaps = 4:18.
2 a Ramathite 1 Chronicles 27:27.
3 Levites: a. 'son' of Gershon Exodus 6:17; Numbers 3:18; 1 Chronicles 6:2; 23:7, 9, 10 (twice in verse)
c. v.1 Chronicles 6:27.
g. Ezra 10:23.
4 brother of Zerubbabel 1 Chronicles 3:19.
5 in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:26-27,.
6 in Reuben 1 Chronicles 5:4.
7 1 Chronicles 8:13 +?שֶׁמַע 8:13.
8 post-exilic names:
a. Ezra 10:33.
b. Ezra 10:38 (compare 3g above).
9 grandfather of Mordecai Esther 2:5.
10 2 Samuel 21:21 Kt (Qr שִׁמְעָא q. v. 1).