H7766: שׁוּנֵם
Shûwnêm · pronounced shoo-name' · “Shunem”
Definition
Shunem, a place in Pal
KJV translates it as: Shunem.
Word origin: probably from the same as H7764 (שׁוּנִי); quietly;
Extended definition
§ Shunem = "double resting place"
a city in Issachar, located 5 miles (8 km) south of Mount Tabor
a city in Issachar, located 5 miles (8 km) south of Mount Tabor
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7766 is translated
- shunem ×3
Bible verses with H7766 (Shûwnêm)
Shûwnêm appears in 3 verses.
- 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.