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title: שִׁנְעָר — Shinar · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁנְעָר (8152), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Shinar. BDB 1906: pr. loc. Shinar. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁנְעָר

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«שִׁנְעָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shinar** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 8152 · **BDB:** שִׁנְעָר

### Glosses

of.Shinar (7); Shinar (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shinar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8152/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pr. loc. Shinar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8152/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. loc. Shinar = Babylonia (= Bab. Šumêr according to COT Gn 11:1 al., \> denied by Hal Rev. Crit. 1883, 44 Jen ZK ii (1885), 419; Egypt; Sangar (WMMAs. u. Eur. 279), TelAm. Šanḫar (Wkl TelAm. 25) identif. with שׁ׳ by Mey Egyptiaca 63; cf., further, PinchesHast DB shinar);—אֶרֶץ שׁ׳ Gn 10:10; 11:2; Zc 5:11; Dn 1:2; מֶלֶךְ־שׁ׳ (Amraphel) Gn 14:1, 9; שׁ׳ alone Is 11:11 (as place of diaspora); אַדֶּרֶת שׁ׳ Jos 7:21; 𝔊 usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zc 5:11 (ἐν γῇ) Βαβυλῶνος.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁנְעָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8152/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.10/)

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וַתְּהִ֨י רֵאשִׁ֤ית מַמְלַכְתּוֹ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל וְאֶ֖רֶךְ וְאַכַּ֣ד וְכַלְנֵ֑ה בְּאֶ֖רֶץ שִׁנְעָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.beginning his.kingdom his Babel and Erech and Akkad and Calneh in the.land of.Shinar

*JPS 1917:* And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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[Genesis 11:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.2/)

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וַֽיְהִ֖י בְּנָסְעָ֣ם מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ בִקְעָ֛ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁנְעָ֖ר וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when they set.out from.\[the\] east and they.found a.plain in the.land of.Shinar and they.dwelt there

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

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