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# שָׁרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8289

**Lasharon** — used 7 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

Lasharon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8289/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁרוֹן: n.pr.loc. Sharon n.m. plain, level [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8289/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Sharon (plausibly connected with √ ישׁר by Thes Ges 12 al., cf. GASmGeogr. 52; = יְשָׁרוֹן\*; Ph. שרן)—strictly n.m. Is 65:10 plain, level;— הַשּׁ׳ (with art.), name of maritime plain on Mediterr., from Joppa northward, noted for fertility, Is 33:9 (‖ בָּשָׁן, כַּרְמֶל; 𝔊 ὁ Σαρων), cf. הֲדַר כַּרְמֶל וְהַשָּׁרוֹן 35:2; 65:10 (‖ עֵמֶק עָכוֹר; 𝔊 τῷ δρυμῷ); חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשּׁ׳ Ct 2:1 (𝔊 ἄνθος τοῦ πεδίου); הַבָּקָר הָרֹעִים בַּשּׁ׳ 1 Ch 27:29; so also Jos 12:18, where read מֶלֶךְ אֲפֵק לַשּׁ׳ so Di WeSam. 55 Ges 12 after 𝔊, cf. RSOTJC 2, 273, 435.—On this plain v. GASmGeogr. 147 ff. BuhlGeogr. § 65. מִגְרְשֵׁי שָׁרוֹן region E. of Jordan 1 Ch 5:16 (‖ גִּלְעָד, בָּשָׁן; 𝔊 τὰ περίχωρα Τεριαμ, 𝔊 A Σαρων); identified by many with הַמִּישׁוֹר (Dt 3:10).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sharon (6); of Sharon (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/#tree)

אֲנִי֙ חֲבַצֶּ֣לֶת הַשָּׁר֔וֹן שֽׁוֹשַׁנַּ֖ת הָעֲמָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I \[am\].the.crocus of.(the) Sharon (the).lily of the.valleys

*JPS 1917:* I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

[Joshua 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.18/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ אֲפֵק֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ לַשָּׁר֖וֹן אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Aphek one \[the\].king of (the) Sharon one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Aphek, one; the king of the Sharon, one;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8289.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8289/): 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).