שִׁנְעָר
shin.ar
Shinar
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredBased on the given data, the word שִׁנְעָר (shinar) refers to a proper name, specifically a person's name, but upon further research in lexical sources, it is known as a place name in the biblical record. Given the limited context in the original entry (person name), one must investigate further in order to correctly identify its meaning. Since the occurrences of this term in the Bible amount to 8 times, it can be deduced that the writer(s) of the biblical narratives consider this place to be significant in their narrative. Investigating this word further into biblical lexicons suggests that it refers to a specific geographic area with historical and cultural significance.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
8 total occurrences across the text
It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Daniel 1:2The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
Zechariah 5:11He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”
Genesis 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Genesis 14:1In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,
Genesis 14:9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Joshua 7:21When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”