King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8152
Transliteration: Shinar
Phonetic Spelling: (shin-awr')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: another name for Bab
Meaning: Shinar -- another name for Babylon
Word Summary
Shinar: another name for Bab
Original Word: שִׁנְעָרTransliteration: Shinar
Phonetic Spelling: (shin-awr')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: another name for Bab
Meaning: Shinar -- another name for Babylon
Strong's Concordance
Shinar Probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia -- Shinar.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8152. Shinar
שִׁנְעָר proper name, of a location Shinar = Babylonia (= Babylonian Šumêr according to COTGenesis 11:1 and others, > denied by HalRev. Crit. 1883, 44 JenZK ii(1885), 419; Egyptian Sangar (WMMAs.u.Eur.279), Tel Amarna Šan—ar (WklTelAm. 25) identification with ׳שׁ by MeyEgyptiaca 63; compare, further, PinchesHast. DB SHINAR); — שׁ ׳אֶרֶץ 10:10; 11:2; Zechariah 5:11; Daniel 1:2; ׳מֶלֶךְשֿׁ (Amraphel) Genesis 14:2, 9; ׳שׁ alone Isaiah 11:11 (as place of diaspora); שׁ ׳אַדֶּרֶת Joshua 7:21; ᵐ5 usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zechariah 5:11 (ἐν γῆ) Βαβυλῶνος.
שְׁנָת sleep, see שֵׁנָה below יָשֵׁן.