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Lexicon :: Strong's H8152 - šinʿār

Aa
שִׁנְעָר
Transliteration
šinʿār
Pronunciation
shin-awr'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign derivation
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2424

Strong’s Definitions

שִׁנְעָר Shinʻâr, shin-awr'; probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia:—Shinar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H8152 in the following manner: Shinar (7x), Babylonish (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H8152 in the following manner: Shinar (7x), Babylonish (1x).

  1. Shinar = "country of two rivers"

    1. the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׁנְעָר Shinʻâr, shin-awr'; probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia:—Shinar.
STRONGS H8152: Abbreviations
† שִׁנְעָר proper name, of a location Shinar = Babylonia (= Babylonian Šumêr according to COTGenesis 11:1 and others, > denied by HalRev. Crit. 1883, 44 JenZK ii(1885), 419; Egyptian Sangar (WMMAs.u.Eur.279), Tel Amarna Šanḫar (WklTelAm. 25) identification with שׁ׳ by MeyEgyptiaca 63; compare, further, PinchesHast. DB SHINAR); — אֶרֶץ שׁ׳ Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Zechariah 5:11; Daniel 1:2; מֶלֶךְשֿׁ׳ (Amraphel) Genesis 14:2, 9; שׁ׳ alone Isaiah 11:11 (as place of diaspora); אַדֶּרֶת שׁ׳ Joshua 7:21; Greek Version of the LXX usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zechariah 5:11 (ἐν γῆ) Βαβυλῶνος.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:10; 11:1; 11:2; 14:2; 14:9

Joshua

7:21

Isaiah

11:11

Daniel

1:2

Zechariah

5:11; 5:11

H8152

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8152 matches the Hebrew שִׁנְעָר (šinʿār),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:1 - Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9 - Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:2 - And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:11 - And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.
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