Shimron

watch-post, an ancient city of the Canaanites; with its villages, allotted to Zebulun ( Joshua 19:15 ); now probably Semunieh, on the northern edge of the plain of Esdraelon, 5 miles west of Nazareth.

(watch-height ).

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.

SHIMRON (1)

shim'-ron (shimron, "watch"):

The 4th son of Issachar (Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:24; 1 Chronicles 7:1), and ancestor of the Shimronites (Numbers 26:24).

SHIMRON (2)

(shimron; Codex Vaticanus Sumoon; Codex Alexandrinus Someron and other forms):

A town whose king was tributary to Jabin king of Hazor, and who joined in the attempt to resist the invasion under Joshua (Joshua 11:1). It was in the territory allotted to Zebulun (Joshua 19:15). No sure identification is yet possible. The Septuagint and the Talmud both omit the "r" from the name; and Neubauer would identify it with Simonias (Vita, 24), the Simonia of the Talmud, which is now represented by Semuniyeh, a village about 5 miles West of Nazareth, on the edge of the plain (Geog. du Talm). Beit Lachm, named by Josephus along with it, is a short distance to the Northwest Es-Semeiriyeh, about 3 miles North of Acre, has also been suggested; but it is perhaps too far to the West.

W. Ewing