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Shemer
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
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She´mer (lees), the owner of the hill of Samaria, which derived its name from him. Omri bought the hill for two talents of silver, and built thereon the city, also called Samaria, which he made the capital of his kingdom () [SAMARIA]. As the Israelites were prevented by the law () from thus alienating their inheritances, and as his name occurs without the usual genealogical marks, it is more than probable that Shemer was descended from those Canaanites whom the Hebrews had not dispossessed of their lands.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Shemer'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​s/shemer.html.
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Shemer'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​s/shemer.html.