שִׁנְעָר

shin.arShinar
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place8 occurrences5 books8 verses
This is the name of the place Shinar: Ancient region in Mesopotamia, associated with Babylon.

Definition

probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia
Traditional renderings: Shinar.

Glossary entries

Shinar

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

8 total
  1. Genesis 10:10שִׁנְעָֽר׃ · of Shinar
    His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  2. Genesis 11:2שִׁנְעָ֖ר · of Shinar
    And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  3. Genesis 14:1שִׁנְעָ֔ר · of Shinar
    In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
  4. Genesis 14:9שִׁנְעָ֔ר · of Shinar
    …against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
  5. Joshua 7:21שִׁנְעָר֩ · from Shinar
    When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
  6. Isaiah 11:11וּמִשִּׁנְעָר֙ · from Shinar
    On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  7. Daniel 1:2שִׁנְעָ֖ר · of Shinar
    And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
  8. Zechariah 5:11שִׁנְעָ֑ר · of Shinar
    “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”