Lexicon Shinar: another name for Bab. Original Word: שִׁנְעָרPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Shinar Phonetic Spelling: (shin-awr') Short Definition: Shinar NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of foreign origin Definitionanother name for Bab. NASB TranslationShinar (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שִׁנְעָר proper name, of a location Shinar = Babylonia (= Babylonian Šumêr according to COT Genesis 11:1 and others, > denied by Hal Rev. Crit. 1883, 44 Jen ZK ii(1885), 419; Egyptian Sangar (WMM As.u.Eur.279), Tel Amarna Šan—ar (Wkl TelAm. 25) identification with ׳שׁ by Mey Egyptiaca 63; compare, further, Pinches Hast. DB SHINAR); — ׳אֶרֶץ שׁ Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Zechariah 5:11; Daniel 1:2; ׳מֶלֶךְשֿׁ (Amraphel) Genesis 14:2,9; ׳שׁ alone Isaiah 11:11 (as place of diaspora); ׳אַדֶּרֶת שׁ Joshua 7:21; ᵐ5 usually Σεν( ν) ααρ; Zechariah 5:11 ( ἐν γῆ) Βαβυλῶνος. שְׁנָת sleep, see שֵׁנָה below יָשֵׁן.
Strong's Shinar Probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia -- Shinar. |
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