Shum. See (Jaklick.
Shumah. See Siiisiatiiite.
Shu'mathite (Heb. collective with the art. hash- Shumdthi', ■^r'C'C'ri, a gentile or patronymic; Sept. 'H(Tafia^fifi ; Vulg, Semiithei), one of the four families who sprang from Kirjalh-jearim (1 Chron. ii, 53); so called either as being colonists of a village named Shnnidh {•^'C'ii, f/drlic [( Jesen.], or r(;/««/ww [Fiirst]), somewhere in that neighborhood, or as descendants from a man of that name; but in neither case is there any other trace of the origin or location.
Shu'nammite (Heb. with the art. hash-Sfnniam- milh'. r>^':z':v:^'n [in 1 Kings ii, 22, the shorter form n"^^!"-"!!]. the Shinidmmitess ; Sept. t) 2iu/(a)'f7ri(; v. r. l"oi'/i«i'(Tif), a native of Siiunem, as is plain from 2 Kings iv. 1. It is applied to two persons — Abishag, the nurse of king David (I Kings i, 3, 15; ii, 17, 21, 22), and the nameless liostess of Elisha (2 Kings iv, 12, 25, 36)i See Woodward, Lectures on the Shiniainmite (Lond. 1840). The modern represeinative of Sbuncm being Solum, some hHV(( suggested (as ( u'seniiis, Tliesdin: p. 1379 b), or ptisitively aftirmed (as Fiirst, llitndirh. ii,422), that Shu- nammite is identical with Shnldnimile (Cant, vi, 13). Hut lliis lacks proljability.
Shu'liem (Ilcb. Shunem', CIVl', uneven pldc6
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[Fiirst] from dJd, or perhaps [Gesen.] for CpS^ld, two restiny - places ; Sept. "S-ovvafi or "Zovvav v. r. 'S.uii'af.i or Sw/tfiv. etc.), one of the cities allotted to the tribe of Issachar (Josh, xix, 18; where it occurs between Che- suUoth and Haphraim). It is mentioned on two occa- sions. First as the [ilace of the Philistines' first en- campment before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. xxviii, 4). Here it occurs in connec ion with Mount (iilboa and En-dor, and also, probably, with Jezreel (xxix, 1). Sec- ondly, as the scene of Elisha's intercourse with the Shu- nammite woman and her son (2 Kings iv, 8). Here it, is connected with adjacent corn-tields, and, more remote- ly, with Mount Carmel. It was, besides, the native place of Abishag. the attendant on king David (1 Kings i, 3), and, according to some, of Shiilamith, the heroine of the poem or drama of "Solomon's Song." By Eu- sebius and Jerome ( Onomaitt. ) it is mentioned twice, under Hovjiljii and " Sunem," as five miles south of IMount Tabor, and then known as Sulem (Sot/Xiyju); a'l^l inider "Sonam," as a village in Acrabattine, in the ter- ritory of Sebaste called Sanim. The latter of these two identitications probably refers to Saniir, a well-known fortress some seven miles from Sebastiyeh and four from Arrabeh, a spot completely out of the circle of the asso- ciations which connect themselves with Shunem. The other has more in its favor, since — except for the dis- tance from Mount Tabor, which is nearer eight Koman miles than five — it agrees with the position of the pres- ent Solum or Sulem, a village on the south-west flank of Jeliel Duhy (the so-called "Little Herm(m"), three miles north of Jezreel, five from Gilboa (J. Fukua), full in view of the sacred spot on Mount Carmel, and situ- ated in the midst of the finest corn-tields in the world. It is named as Sulem by the Jewish traveller Hap-l*ar- chi (Asher, Benjamin, ii, 431). It had then its spring, without which the Philistines would certainly not have chosen it for their encampment. Now, according to the notice of Dr. Robinson {Researches, ii, 3"24), the spring of the village is but a poor one. The change of the n in the ancient name to I in the modern one is the re- verse of that which has taken place in Zerin (.Jezreel) and Beitin (Bethel). — Smith. There is nothing spe- cially to mark an ancient site in Sulem, for it is only a mud hamlet with cactus-bushes. West of the houses there is a beautiful garden, cool and shady, of lemon- trees, watered by a little rivulet; and in the village are a fountain and trough (Conder, Tent Work in Palestine, i, 123).
Shu'ni (Heb. Shuni', "'2VJ, qniet [Gesen.], or for- tuuute [Fiirst]; Sept. Honri v. r. Saui'ic), third named of the seven sons of Gad ((ien. xlvi, Ifi), and progenitor of a familv named after him (Numb, xxvi, 15). B.C. 1874.
Shu'nite (Heb. collectively with the art. Iiash-Shii- ni', ^3 Ti'n, patronymic from Shuni; Sept. 6 "Zovvti v. r. 2o/')' ; A. V. " the Shunites"), a designation of the pos- terity of Shuni (q. v.) the son of Gad (Numb, xxvi, 15).
Shunk, MiCHAKL, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born at Berlin, Somerset Co., Pa., about 1808, and converted at Masontown, Pa., in his twentieth year. He was received into the Illinois Con- ference in 1837, and was effective until 1870. From that time he was on the supenuimerary anil superannu- ated lists until his death, in Jacksonville, 111., Sept. 1, 187(5. '-He was a scriptural, sensible, and practical preacher and a faithful pastor." See Minutes of An- nuul Conferences, 187G, p, 144,
Shu'pham, or rather Shephu'pham (Heb. She- phupham', DS^E'i', probably for "EIS'J, an adder; Sept. 2w0ai' v, r. 'Ocpdp), a son of Benjamin, and head of a family of the same name (Numb, xxvi, 39); doubtless the same elsewhere (1 Chron, viii, 5) called SniiiMiu- PHAN (q, V,), etc.
Shu'phamite (Heb, collectively with the art. hash-
Shuphami', "^^S^f H, patronymic from Shephupham; Sept. o '2w(pai'i v. r. '0(pnfii ; A. V. " Shuphamites"), the designation (Numb, xxvi, 39) of the family of She- phupham ("A. V. Shuphan"), or Shephuphan, the son of Benjamin (I Chron. viii, 5). See Shuppim,