Shunammites
שׁוּנַמִּיתStrong’s H7767shunammit (shu-nam-mit)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shunammit is the Hebrew word usually translated “shunammite”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.”
Meaning
- People descended from Shunam(?), first mentioned at 1Ki.1.3
How it's translated
- the shunammite 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 5
- 2 Kings 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 1:15And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
- 1 Kings 2:17And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
- 1 Kings 2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
- 1 Kings 2:22And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
- 2 Kings 4:12And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
- 2 Kings 4:25So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּנַמִּית shunammit · Shunammites
People descended from Shunam(?), first mentioned at 1Ki.1.3 § Shunammite, of Shunen "double resting place" an inhabitant of Shunem
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.