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Sharon

PLAIN OF, a beautiful and spacious plain, extending from Cæsarea to Joppa on the sea coast, and eastward to the mountains of Judea; and is celebrated for its wines, its flowers, and its pastures. Sharon is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “his plain; his song.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H8289, G4565
Hebrew
שָׁרוֹן · Shârôwn
Greek
Σάρων · Sarōn
Name meaning
his plain; his song According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Σάρων

G4565
Transliteration
Sarōn
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N--L
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Sharon, Saron

Lexicon definition

Σάρων, -ωνος (accusative -ῶνα, WH), ὁ (Heb. שָׁרוֹן), the plain of Sharon: Act.9:35.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שָׁרוֹן

H8289
Transliteration
Shârôwn
Pronunciation
shaw-rone'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
7

Glosses

Lasharon, Sharon.

Lexicon definition

plain, Sharon, the name of a place in Palestine

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sharon

his plain; his song

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SHARON

PLAIN OF, a beautiful and spacious plain, extending from Cæsarea to Joppa on the sea coast, and eastward to the mountains of Judea; and is celebrated for its wines, its flowers, and its pastures. It still preserves some portions of its natural beauty, and is adorned in the spring with the white and red rose, the narcissus, the white and orange lily, the carnation and other flowers; but for the rest of the year it appears little better than a desert, with here and there a ruined village, and some clumps of olive trees and sycamores. This name was almost become a proverb, to express a place of extraordinary beauty and fruitfulness, Isaiah xxxiii, 9; xxxv, 2. But there are three cantons of Palestine known by the name of Sharon. The first, according to Eusebius and St. Jerom, is a canton between Mount Tabor and the sea of Tiberias. The second, a canton between the city of Cæsarea of Palestine and Joppa. And the third a canton beyond Jordan, in the country of Basan, and in the division of the tribe of Gad. Modern travellers give this name also to the plain that lies between Ecdippe and Ptolemais.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Sharon

Indexed occurrences: 7

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sharon

Meaning:
his plain; his song

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SHARON

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Caesarea

(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by Herod the Great (B.C. 10), who named it after Caesar Augustus, hence called Caesarea Sebaste (Gr. Sebastos = "Augustus"), on the site of an old town called "Strato's Tower." It was the capital of the Roman province of Judaea, the seat of the governors or procurators, and the headquarters of the Roman troops. It was the great Gentile city of Palestine, with a spacious artificial harbour. It was adorned with many buildings of great splendour, after the manner of the Roman cities of the West. Here Cornelius the centurion was converted through the instrumentality of Peter (Acts 10:1, 24), and thus for the first time the door of faith was opened to the Gentiles. Philip the evangelist resided here with his four daughters (21:8). From this place Saul sailed for his native Tarsus when forced to flee from Jerusalem (9:30), and here he landed when returning from his second missionary journey (18:22). He remained as a prisoner here for two years before his voyage to Rome (Acts 24:27; 25:1, 4, 6, 13). Here on a "set day," when games were celebrated in the theatre in honour of the emperor Claudius, Herod Agrippa I. appeared among the people in great pomp, and in the midst of the idolatrous homage paid to him was suddenly smitten by an angel, and carried out a dying man. He was "eaten of worms" (12:19-23), thus perishing by the same loathsome disease as his granfather, Herod the Great. It still retains its ancient name Kaiseriyeh, but is now desolate. "The present inhabitants of the ruins are snakes, scorpions, lizards, wild boars, and jackals." It is described as the most desolate city of all Palestine.

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Saron

same as Sharon

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Sharon, Saron

A plain, a level tract extending from the Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles long and from 8 to 15 miles broad, celebrated for its beauty and fertility (1 Chr. 27:29; Isa. 33:9; 35:2; 65:10). The "rose of Sharon" is celebrated (Cant. 2:1). It is called Lasharon (the article la being here a part of the word) in Josh. 12:18.

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Sharon

his plain; his song

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