Shunem
שׁוּנֵםStrong’s H7766shunem (shu-nem)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shunem is the Hebrew word usually translated “shunem” and “at shunem”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,”
Meaning
- § Shunem = "double resting place"
How it's translated
- and shunem 1
- at shunem 1
- shunem 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 28:4And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
- 2 Kings 4:8And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּנֵם shunem · Shunem
§ Shunem = "double resting place" a city in Issachar, located 5 miles (8 km) south of Mount Tabor
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.