שִׁנְעָר
shin.ar
“Shinar”
Definition
Shinar, a plain in Babylonia
probably of foreign derivation;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
שִׁנְעָר appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
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