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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

sem'-e-is (Codex Alexandrinus and Fritzsche, Semeis; Codex Vaticanus Senseis; the King James Version, Semis): One of the Levites who put away their "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:23) = "Shimei" in Ezr 10:23.