Shimrith
(feminine of Shimri, vigilant), a Moabitess, mother of Jehozabad, one of the assassins of King
Joash. (2 Chronicles 24:26) In (2 Kings 12:21) she is called Shomer. (B.C. 839.)
Shimrom
(1 Chronicles 7:1) [Shimron]
Shimron
(watch-height).
•A city of Zebulun. (Joshua 11:1; 19:15) Its full appellation was perhaps Shimron-meron.
•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.
Shimronites, The
[Shimron]
Shimronmeron
(watch-height of Meron). The king of Shimron-meron is mentioned as one of the thirty-one
kings vanquished by Joshua. (Joshua 12:20) It is probably the complete name of the place elsewhere
called Shimron, a city of Zebulun. (Joshua 11:1; 19:15)
Shimshai, Or Shimshai
(sunny), the scribe or secretary of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province
of Judea and of the colony of Samaria, supported by the Persian court. (Ezra 4:8,13,17,23) He was
apparently an Aramaean, for the letter which he wrote to Artaxerxes was in Syriac. (Ezra 4:7) (B.C.
529.)
Shinab
(splendor of the father, i.e. God), the king of Admah in the time of Abraham. (Genesis 14:2)
(B.C. 1912.)
Shinar
(country of two rivers), the ancient name of the great alluvial tract through which the Tigris
and Euphrates pass before reaching the sea—the tract known in later times as Chaldaea or Babylonia.
It was a plain country, where brick had to be used for stone and slime for mortar. (Genesis 11:3)
Among the cities were Babel (Babylon), Erech or Orech (Orchoe), Calneh or Calno (probably
Niffer), and Accad, the site of which is unknown. It may be suspected that Shinar was the name
by which the Hebrews originally knew the lower Mesopotamian country where they so long dwelt,
and which Abraham brought with him from “Ur of the Chaldees.”
Ship
No one writer in the whole range of Greek and Roman literature has supplied us with so much
information concerning the merchant-ships of the ancients as St. Luke in the narrative of St. Paul’s
voyage to Rome. Acts 27,28. It is important to remember that he accomplished it in three ships:
first, the Adramyttian vessel which took him from Caesarea to Myra, and which was probably a
coasting-vessel of no great size, (Acts 27:1-6) secondly, the large Alexandrian corn-ship, in which
he was wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:6-28) :1; and thirdly, another large Alexandrian
corn-ship, in which he sailed from Malta by Syracuse and Rhegium to Puteoli. (Acts 28:11-13)
•Size of ancient ships .—The narrative which we take as our chief guide affords a good standard
for estimating this. The ship, in which St. Paul was wrecked had persons on board, (Acts 27:37)
besides a cargo of wheat, ibid. (Acts 27:10,38) and all these passengers seem to have been taken
on to Puteoli in another ship, ibid, (Acts 28:11) which had its own crew and its own cargo. Now,
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