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Shinar

A province of Babylonia, where men undertook to build the tower of Babel, Genesis xi, 2; x, 10. Shinar is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “watch of him that sleeps.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H8152
Hebrew
שִׁנְעָר · Shinʻâr
Name meaning
watch of him that sleeps According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שִׁנְעָר

H8152
Transliteration
Shinʻâr
Pronunciation
shin-awr'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
8

Glosses

Shinar.

Lexicon definition

Shinar, a plain in Babylonia

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Shinar

watch of him that sleeps

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SHINAR

a province of Babylonia, where men undertook to build the tower of Babel, Genesis xi, 2; x, 10. Calneh was built in this country. Amraphel was king of Shinar in the days of Abraham, Genesis xiv, 1. See BABYLON.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Shinar

Indexed occurrences: 8

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All Scripture references9 references

Genesis 4

Genesis 10:10Genesis 11:2Genesis 14:1Genesis 14:9

Joshua 1

Joshua 7:21

Ezra 1

Ezra 4:9

Isaiah 1

Isaiah 11:11

Daniel 1

Daniel 1:2

Zechariah 1

Zechariah 5:11

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

SHINAR

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Nave’s Topical Bible references for SHINAR.

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Shinar

Meaning:
watch of him that sleeps

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Sources

Ancient Context1 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of Tongues.

Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 4

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Topic

SHINAR

Nave’s Topical Bible references for SHINAR.

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Dictionary

Asshur

Second son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17). He went from the land of Shinar and built Nineveh, etc. (Gen. 10:11, 12). He probably gave his name to Assyria, which is the usual translation of the word, although the form Asshur is sometimes retained (Num. 24:22, 24; Ezek. 27:23, etc.). In Gen. 2:14 "Assyria" ought to be "Asshur," which was the original capital of Assyria, a city represented by the mounds of Kalah Sherghat, on the west bank of the Tigris. This city was founded by Bel-kap-kapu about B.C. 1700. At a later date the capital was shifted to Ninua, or Nineveh, now Koyunjik, on the eastern bank of the river. (See [36]CALAH; [37]NINEVEH.)

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Babel, tower of

The name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen as a rallying-point in the extensive plain of Shinar, to which they had emigrated from the uplands of Armenia, and so prevent their being scattered abroad. But God interposed and defeated their design by condounding their language, and hence the name Babel, meaning "confusion." In the Babylonian tablets there is an account of this event, and also of the creation and the deluge. (See [43]CHALDEA.) The Temple of Belus, which is supposed to occupy its site, is described by the Greek historian Herodotus as a temple of great extent and magnificence, erected by the Babylonians for their god Belus. The treasures Nebuchadnezzar brought from Jerusalem were laid up in this temple (2 Chr. 36:7). The Birs Nimrud, at ancient Borsippa, about 7 miles south-west of Hillah, the modern town which occupies a part of the site of ancient Babylon, and 6 miles from the Euphrates, is an immense mass of broken and fire-blasted fragments, of about 2,300 feet in circumference, rising suddenly to the height of 235 feet above the desert-plain, and is with probability regarded as the ruins of the tower of Babel. This is "one of the most imposing ruins in the country." Others think it to be the ruins of the Temple of Belus.

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Erech

(LXX., "Orech"), length, or Moon-town, one of the cities of Nimrod's kingdom in the plain of Shinar (Gen. 10:10); the Orchoe of the Greeks and Romans. It was probably the city of the Archevites, who were transplanted to Samaria by Asnapper (Ezra 4:9). It lay on the left bank of the Euphrates, about 120 miles south-east of Babylon, and is now represented by the mounds and ruins of Warka. It appears to have been the necropolis of the Assyrian kings, as the whole region is strewed with bricks and the remains of coffins. "Standing on the summit of the principal edifice, called the Buwarizza, a tower 200 feet square in the centre of the ruins, the beholder is struck with astonishment at the enormous accumulation of mounds and ancient relics at his feet. An irregular circle, nearly 6 miles in circumference, is defined by the traces of an earthen rampart, in some places 40 feet high."

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Shinar, The Land of

LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen. 11:1-6), and the city of Babylon. The name occurs later in Jewish history (Isa. 11:11; Zech. 5:11). Shinar was apparently first peopled by Turanian tribes, who tilled the land and made bricks and built cities. Then tribes of Semites invaded the land and settled in it, and became its rulers. This was followed in course of time by an Elamite invasion; from which the land was finally delivered by Khammurabi, the son of Amarpel ("Amraphel, king of Shinar," Gen. 14:1), who became the founder of the new empire of Chaldea. (See [582]AMRAPHEL.)

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Shinar

watch of him that sleeps

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