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
Same root
- שָׁמַרshâmar · H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
- ΣαμάρειαSamáreia · G4540Samaria (i.e. Shomeron), a city and region of Palestine
- שׇׁמְרַיִןShomrayin · H8115Shomrain, a place in Palestine
- שֹׁמרֹנִיShômrônîy · H8118a Shomeronite (collectively) or inhabitants of Shomeron
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.
See every passage
- 1 Kings 13:32, 16:24, 16:28, 16:29, 16:32, 18:2, 20:1, 20:10, 20:17, 20:34, 20:43, 21:1, 21:18, 22:10, 22:37, 22:38, 22:51
- 2 Kings 1:2, 1:3, 2:25, 3:1, 3:6, 5:3, 6:19, 6:20, 6:24, 6:25, 7:1, 7:18, 10:1, 10:12, 10:17, 10:35, 10:36, 13:1, 13:6, 13:9, 13:10, 13:13, 14:14, 14:16, 14:23, 15:8, 15:13, 15:14, 15:17, 15:23, 15:25, 15:27, 17:1, 17:5, 17:6, 17:24, 17:26, 17:28, 18:9, 18:10, 18:34, 21:13, 23:18, 23:19
- 2 Chronicles 18:2, 18:9, 22:9, 25:13, 25:24, 28:8, 28:9, 28:15
- Nehemiah 4:2
- Isaiah 7:9, 8:4, 9:9, 10:9, 10:10, 10:11, 36:19
- Jeremiah 23:13, 31:5, 41:5
- Ezekiel 16:46, 16:51, 16:53, 16:55, 23:4, 23:33
- Hosea 7:1, 8:5, 8:6, 10:5, 10:7, 13:16
- Amos 3:9, 3:12, 4:1, 6:1, 8:14
- Obadiah 1:19
- Micah 1:1, 1:5, 1:6
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