Lexical Summary Shinar: another name for Bab Original Word: שִׁנְעָרTransliteration: Shinar Phonetic Spelling: (shin-awr') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: another name for Bab Meaning: Shinar -- another name for Babylon Strong's Concordance Shinar Probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia -- Shinar. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8152. Shinar שִׁנְעָר proper name, of a location Shinar = Babylonia (= Babylonian Šumêr according to COTGenesis 11:1 and others, > denied by HalRev. Crit. 1883, 44 JenZK ii(1885), 419; Egyptian Sangar (WMMAs.u.Eur.279), Tel Amarna Šan—ar (WklTelAm. 25) identification with ׳שׁ by MeyEgyptiaca 63; compare, further, PinchesHast. DB SHINAR); — שׁ ׳אֶרֶץ 10:10; 11:2; Zechariah 5:11; Daniel 1:2; ׳מֶלֶךְשֿׁ (Amraphel) Genesis 14:2, 9; ׳שׁ alone Isaiah 11:11 (as place of diaspora); שׁ ׳אַדֶּרֶת Joshua 7:21; ᵐ5 usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zechariah 5:11 (ἐν γῆ) Βαβυλῶνος. שְׁנָת sleep, see שֵׁנָה below יָשֵׁן. |
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