Strong H8126שֻׁמָתִי
Shumathite
- Transliteration
- shûmâthîy
- Pronunciation
- shoo-maw-thee'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
Patronymic from an unused name from H7762 probably meaning garlic smell; a Shumathite (collectively) or descendant of Shumah: - Shumathites.
Meaning of the name
Shumathites = "the exalted"
Detailed definition
Someone descended from Shumath(?), only mentioned at 1Ch.2.53
In the biblical story
Shumathites
A family of Kirjath-jearim, descendants of Judah.
The Shumathites were a family from Kirjath-jearim, descendants of Judah through Shobal.
In the Bible
Strong H8126 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- shumathites1
First verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:53And the families of Kirjath–jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.