§ Shinar = "country of two rivers" the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea
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H8152 — שִׁנְעָר
shin.ar · Shinar · Hebrew/Aramaic
8 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 10:10 · שִׁנְעָֽר׃The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.Genesis 11:2 · שִׁנְעָ֖רIt happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.Genesis 14:1 · שִׁנְעָ֔רIt happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,Genesis 14:9 · שִׁנְעָ֔רagainst Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.Joshua 7:21 · שִׁנְעָר֩When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”Isaiah 11:11 · וּמִשִּׁנְעָר֙It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.Daniel 1:2 · שִׁנְעָ֖רThe Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.Zechariah 5:11 · שִׁנְעָ֑רHe said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”