שֹׁמְרוֹןShômᵉrôwn

proper name [of a location]: capital of Northern Israel from Omri's time (1 Kings 16:24; 1 Kings 16:28; 1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 16:32; 1 Kings 20:1)

Pronunciation: sho-mer-one' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8111

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Where it appears

Appears 109 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 13:32 For the message the Lord told him to proclaim against the altar in Bethel and against the pagan shrines in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”
  • 1 Kings 16:24 Then Omri bought the hill now known as Samaria from its owner, Shemer, for 150 pounds of silver. He built a city on it and called the city Samaria in honor of Shemer.
  • 1 Kings 16:28 When Omri died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the next king.
  • 1 Kings 16:29 Ahab son of Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
  • 1 Kings 16:32 First Ahab built a temple and an altar for Baal in Samaria.
  • 1 Kings 18:2 So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. Meanwhile, the famine had become very severe in Samaria.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).