Samaritan
שֹׁמרֹנִיStrong’s H8118shomroni (sho-m-ro-ni)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shomroni is the Hebrew word usually translated “samaritans”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.”
Meaning
- Group of sho.me.ron (שֹׁמְרוֹן "Samaria" H8111)
How it's translated
- the samaritans 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שֹׁמרֹנִי shomroni · Samaritan
Group of sho.me.ron (שֹׁמְרוֹן "Samaria" H8111) § Samaritans = "of Samaria" inhabitants of Samaria
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “samaritan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SAMAR'ITAN, adjective
- Pertaining to Samaria, the principal city of the ten tribes of Israel, belonging to the tribe of Ephraim, and after the captivity of those tribes, repeopled by Cuthites from Assyria or Chaldea.
- Denoting the ancient characters and alphabet used by the Hebrews.
All definitions and other forms of “samaritan”
SAMAR'ITAN, noun
- An inhabitant of Samaria, or one that belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city.
- The language of Samaria, a dialect of the Chaldean.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.