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Lexicon :: Strong's H8111 - šōmrôn

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שֹׁמְרוֹן
Transliteration
šōmrôn
Pronunciation
sho-mer-one'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the act part of שָׁמַר (H8104)
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TWOT Reference: 2414d

Strong’s Definitions

שֹׁמְרוֹן Shômᵉrôwn, sho-mer-one'; from the active participle of H8104; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine:—Samaria.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 109x

The KJV translates Strong's H8111 in the following manner: Samaria (109x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 109x
The KJV translates Strong's H8111 in the following manner: Samaria (109x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֹׁמְרוֹן Shômᵉrôwn, sho-mer-one'; from the active participle of H8104; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine:—Samaria.
STRONGS H8111: Abbreviations
שֹׁמְרוֺן 109 proper name, of a location capital of Northern Israel from Omri's time (belonging to clan שֶׁמֶר, StaZAW v (1885), 165-175; originally שַׁמְרוֺן or שַׁמְרַיִן; Assyrian Samerina COT 1 Kings 16:24); — שׁ׳ 1 Kings 16:24 (name explanation as from שֶׁמֶר, originally owner of site), 1 Kings 16:28; 1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 16:32; 1 Kings 20:1, 10 +; שֹׁמְר֫וֺנָה 1 Kings 20:43; 2 Kings 6:19; 2 Kings 14:14; personified as woman Ezekiel 16:46, 51, 53, 55; Ezekiel 23:4, 33; king of Northern Israel is מֶלֶךְ שׁ׳ 1 Kings 21:1; 2 Kings 1:3; אֲשֶׁר בְּשׁ׳ 1 Kings 21:18, compare בְּשׁ׳ מָלַךְ עַליִֿשׂ׳ 1 Kings 22:52 + 9 times; thence name of territory, שְׂדֵה שׁ׳ Obadiah 19, עָרֵי שׁ׳ 1 Kings 13:32 (point of view of later editor), 2 Kings 17:24, 26; 2 Kings 23:19; הָרֵי שׁ׳ Amos 3:9; Jeremiah 31:5, — compare הַושֿׁ׳ Amos 4:1; Amos 6:1; 1 Kings 16:24; perhaps שׁ׳ alone Jeremiah 23:13; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 7:24; 2 Kings 7:28; 2 Chronicles 25:13; חֵיל שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:34. — Greek Version of the LXX usually Σαμαρεια, but 1 Kings 16:24 Σεμερω, Σαεμερων, Σομορων; = modern Sebastieh; see GASm G 346 ff. BuhlG 207 f. CowleyEncy. Bib. under the word WilsonHast. DB under the word.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8115.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

13:32; 16:24; 16:24; 16:24; 16:24; 16:28; 16:29; 16:32; 18:2; 20:1; 20:10; 20:43; 21:1; 21:18; 22:52

2 Kings

1:3; 6:19; 14:14; 17:24; 17:26; 23:19

2 Chronicles

25:13

Jeremiah

23:13; 31:5

Ezekiel

16:46; 16:51; 16:53; 16:55; 23:4; 23:33

Amos

3:9; 4:1; 6:1

Obadiah

1:19

H8111

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Strong's Number H8111 matches the Hebrew שֹׁמְרוֹן (šōmrôn),
which occurs 19 times in 17 verses in '1Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - “For the thing will certainly come to pass which he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar that is in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria H8111.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - And he purchased the hill [fn]Samaria H8111 from Shemer for [fn]two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built [fn]Samaria H8111, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - And Omri [fn]lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria H8111; and his son Ahab became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:29 -

Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria H8111 for twenty-two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:32 - So he erected an altar for Baal at the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria H8111.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria H8111.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:1 -

Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army, and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria H8111, and fought against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Ben-hadad sent word to him and said, “May the gods do so to me and more so, [fn]if the dust of Samaria H8111 will be enough for handfuls for all the people who [fn]follow me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - The young men of the leaders of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria H8111.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore, and you can make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria H8111.” Ahab said, “And I will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:43 - So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and furious, and came to Samaria H8111.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1 -

Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab, the king of Samaria H8111.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria H8111; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:10 - Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting, each on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria H8111; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:37 -

So the king died and was brought to Samaria H8111, and they buried the king in Samaria H8111.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 - They washed out the chariot by the pool of Samaria H8111, and the dogs licked up his blood (it was there that the prostitutes bathed themselves) in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:51 -

Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria H8111 in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.

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