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Strong's #7766: Shuwnem (pronounced shoo-name')

probably from the same as 7764; quietly; Shunem, a place in Pal:--Shunem.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shûnêm

Shunem = "double resting place"

1) a city in Issachar, located 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of Mount Tabor

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: probably from the same as H7764



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Joshua 19:18: "was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,"
1 Samuel 28:4: "gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together,"
2 Kings 4:8: "that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained"









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