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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - שֶׁמֶר
שֶׁמֶר
H8106
Transliteration: Shemer
Pronunciation: sheh'-mer
Definition: Shamer
Original: שׁמר Transliteration: shemer Phonetic: sheh'-mer
BDB Definition:
Shemer or Shamer or Shamed = "preserved"- the owner of the hill where the city of Samaria was built
- a Merarite Levite, son of Mahli and father of Bani
- an Asherite, son of Heber and father of Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. Also 'Shomer'
- a Benjamite, son of Elpaal and builder of the towns of Ono and Lod