Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H8189: שַׁעֲרַיִם

Shaʻărayim · pronounced shah-ar-ah'-yim · “Shaaraim”

Definition

Shaarajim, a place in Palestine

KJV translates it as: Shaaraim.

Word origin: dual of H8179 (שַׁעַר); double gates;

Extended definition

§ Shaaraim = "double gate"
a town in Judah

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H8189 is translated

  • shaaraim ×3

Bible verses with H8189 (Shaʻărayim)

Shaʻărayim appears in 3 verses.

  • Joshua 15:36

    And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

  • 1 Samuel 17:52

    And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:31

    And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.