שֹׁמְרוֹן
sho.me.ron
“Samaria”
Definition
Shomeron, a place in Palestine
from the active participle of H8104 (שָׁמַר); watch-station;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
שֹׁמְרוֹן appears 97 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.”
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.
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.
“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.
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