HebrewH8111Noun

שֹׁמְרוֹן

sho.me.ron

97Occurrences
H8111Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shomeron, a place in Palestine

from the active participle of H8104 (שָׁמַר); watch-station;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Samaria = "watch mountain" 1) the region of northern Palestine associated with the northern kingdom of the 10 tribes of Israel which split from the kingdom after the death of Solomon during the reign of his son Rehoboam and were ruled by Jeroboam 2) the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel located 30 miles (50 km) north of Jerusalem and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Shechem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

שֹׁמְרוֹן appears 97 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Kings
44
1 Kings
16
2 Chronicles
8
Ezk
6
Isaiah
6
Amos
5
Hosea
5
Jeremiah
3

Key Passages

1 Kings 13:32BSB

for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

2 Chronicles 25:13BSB

Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.

2 Kings 14:23BSB

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.

2 Kings 23:18BSB

“Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.”So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

Ezk 16:55BSB

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