Shinar
שִׁנְעָרStrong’s H8152shinar (shin-ar)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shinar is the Hebrew word usually translated “shinar” and “from shinar”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.”
Meaning
- § Shinar = "country of two rivers"
How it's translated
- shinar 7
- and from shinar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Joshua 1
- Isaiah 1
- Daniel 1
- Zechariah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:11In contextAnd he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
- Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
- Genesis 14:1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
- Genesis 14:9With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁנְעָר shinar · Shinar
§ Shinar = "country of two rivers" the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea
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.