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# שִׁנְעָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8152

**Shinar** — used 8 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

Shinar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8152/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁנְעָר: pr. loc. Shinar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8152/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. loc. Shinar = Babylonia (= Bab. Šumêr according to COT Gn 11:1 al., \> denied by Hal Rev. Crit. 1883, 44 Jen ZK ii (1885), 419; Egypt; Sangar (WMMAs. u. Eur. 279), TelAm. Šanḫar (Wkl TelAm. 25) identif. with שׁ׳ by Mey Egyptiaca 63; cf., further, PinchesHast DB shinar);—אֶרֶץ שׁ׳ Gn 10:10; 11:2; Zc 5:11; Dn 1:2; מֶלֶךְ־שׁ׳ (Amraphel) Gn 14:1, 9; שׁ׳ alone Is 11:11 (as place of diaspora); אַדֶּרֶת שׁ׳ Jos 7:21; 𝔊 usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zc 5:11 (ἐν γῇ) Βαβυλῶνος.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Shinar (7); Shinar (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.10/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֨י רֵאשִׁ֤ית מַמְלַכְתּוֹ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל וְאֶ֖רֶךְ וְאַכַּ֣ד וְכַלְנֵ֑ה בְּאֶ֖רֶץ שִׁנְעָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.beginning his.kingdom his Babel and Erech and Akkad and Calneh in the.land of.Shinar

*JPS 1917:* And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

[Genesis 11:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.2/#tree)

וַֽיְהִ֖י בְּנָסְעָ֣ם מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ בִקְעָ֛ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁנְעָ֖ר וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when they set.out from.\[the\] east and they.found a.plain in the.land of.Shinar and they.dwelt there

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8152.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8152/): 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).