8152. Shinar
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Shinar: another name for Bab.
Original Word: שִׁנְעָר
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Shinar
Phonetic Spelling: (shin-awr')
Short Definition: Shinar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
probably of foreign origin
Definition
another name for Bab.
NASB Translation
Shinar (8).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
שִׁנְעָר proper name, of a location Shinar = Babylonia (= Babylonian Šumêr according to COTGenesis 11:1 and others, > denied by HalRev. Crit. 1883, 44 JenZK ii(1885), 419; Egyptian Sangar (WMMAs.u.Eur.279), Tel Amarna Šan—ar (WklTelAm. 25) identification with ׳שׁ by MeyEgyptiaca 63; compare, further, PinchesHast. DB SHINAR); — ׳אֶרֶץ שׁ Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Zechariah 5:11; Daniel 1:2; ׳מֶלֶךְשֿׁ (Amraphel) Genesis 14:2,9; ׳שׁ alone Isaiah 11:11 (as place of diaspora); ׳אַדֶּרֶת שׁ Joshua 7:21; ᵐ5 usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zechariah 5:11 (ἐν γῆ) Βαβυλῶνος.

שְׁנָת sleep, see שֵׁנָה below יָשֵׁן.



Strong's
Shinar

Probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia -- Shinar.

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