Bible Names

Shunem: meaning of the name

Shunem means “their change; their sleep.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Shunem in Hebrew and Greek

שׁוּנֵם H7766

Shûwnêm (shoo-name') — Shunem, a place in Pal

probably from the same as H7764 (שׁוּנִי); quietly;

Places named Shunem

Shunem in Scripture

“Shunem” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 19:18

    And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

  • 1 Samuel 28:4

    And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.

  • 2 Kings 4:8

    And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.