Bible dictionaries

Shimron

What Bible dictionaries say about “Shimron”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Shimron - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

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.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

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  1. A city of Zebulun. (Joshua 11:1; 19:15) Its full appellation was perhaps Shimron-meron.
  2. The fourth son of Issachar according to the lists of Genesis, (Genesis 46:13) and Numbers, (Numbers 26:24) and the head of the family of the Shimronites.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith