Strong's Hebrew · H8152
שִׁנְעָר
Shinʻâr · shin-awr'
Shinar.
Definition
Shinar, a plain in Babylonia
Derivation
probably of foreign derivation;
Appears 8 times in Scripture
“When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.””
““To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.””
“against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.”
“And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.”
“On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.”
“In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim”
“His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
“And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).