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# שׁוּנֵם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7766

**Shunem** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shunem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7766/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּנֵם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7766/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Issachar;—Jos 19:18 (P), 1 S 28:4 2 K 4:8; Σουναν\[μ\], Σωμαν, Σουμαν, 𝔊L Jos Συνημ; in Egyptian Ša-n-m-â, Ša-na-mḁ WMMAs. u. Eur. 170; mod. Sûlem, N. of Zerʿîn (Jezreel), BuhlG. 217, cf. GASmG 400 ff..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shunem (3).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.18/#tree)

וַיְהִ֖י גְּבוּלָ֑ם יִזְרְעֶ֥אלָה וְהַכְּסוּלֹ֖ת וְשׁוּנֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was border their to Jezreel and (the) Kesulloth and Shunem

*JPS 1917:* And their border was Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem;

[1 Samuel 28:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.4/#tree)

וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ בְשׁוּנֵ֑ם וַיִּקְבֹּ֤ץ שָׁאוּל֙ אֶת־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בַּגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and they.gathered.together \[the\].Philistines and they.came and they.encamped at Shunem and he.gathered Saul (et) all Israel and they.encamped at (the) Gilboa

*JPS 1917:* And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7766.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7766/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).