Shimron
The fourth son of Issachar, Gn 40" (A Za^liipan, D ^a.p.,ipav, Luc. "Zaix^pa. xai Za^fiply), Nu 26, ' I-"' (B Zap-apaii, B''F 'lap.papL, A 'Klijipa.v, Luc. 'Afifipdpi), 1 Ch 7' (B -efiepwv, A Zafipapi, Luc. ZoiJ.^pav). The gentilic name Shim- ronites (-ii:;-.!; 15 Za/iapavd, B'"" ^afipa/tel, A 'kli.iipap.ll, Luc. ' Aiijipaiii) occuis in Nu 26'-" <-'"''. SHIMRON (i^-c?» 'watch-height'; B SuMoiii-, A SfMP-J" iJos 19'^),' A Zoiiepwy (II'), A ZaMpii" (12™); Semeron, Semron).
— One of the towns whose kings Jabin, king of Hazor, called to his assi.stance when lie heard of Joshua's conquest of Southern Palestine (Jos II'). It was afterwards allotted to the tribe of Zebulun (Jos 19"*). Its site is un- known ; Dillra. enumerates various conjectures. Neubauer (0(og. du Talmud, p. 189) identilies it, very improbably, with tlie Simonia {k-:ic'd) of the Talmud, the Simonias of Josephus {Vit.
§ 24), now Semunich, a small village, 5 miles west of Nazareth, and not far from Bethlehem {Beit Lalim), which is mentioned with it in Jos 19" (PEF Mem. i. 339). Riehm (HWB) considers a site so far south in Lower Galilee unlikely, and would identify it with es-Semeiriych, a village about 3 miles north of Acre, and nut far from K'ifr Yasif. C. W. WiLSON. SHIMRON, MERON (i'ni? j'nni!' ; B Zviioiiv . . Ma/ipu;^, A ^a/ipkjf . . 'I'a(T7d . . MaptiJi' ; Simeron Maron).
— A Canaanite town, west of Jordan, whose king was amongst those whom Joshua smote (Jos 12-*). Comparing its position in the list with that of Shimron in the list given in Jos II', it seems proljable that the two places are identical. The I, XX treat Shimron and Meron as two places, and in this they are followed by Eusebius (Onont..) Possibly Sliimron-raeron was the full name of Shimron. Schrader (KAT' p. 163; cf. Del. Paradics, 286 f.)
identifies it with Samsiuiuruna, a Canaanite roj-al city inentiimed in inscriptions of Sennacherib, Esarhaddoii, and Assurbanipal, and places it at es-Semeirti/ch, following Socin (in Baedeker's Pal.) See also SHI.MRON. C. W. Wilson.