Strong's #8115: Shomrayin (pronounced shom-rah'-yin)

(Aramaic) corresponding to 8111; Shomrain, a place in Palestine:--Samaria.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ (Aramaic)

shomrayin

Samaria = "watch mountain"

1) the region of northern Palestine associated with the northern kingdom of the 10 tribes of Israel which split from the kingdom after the death of Solomon during the reign of his son Rehoboam and were ruled by Jeroboam

2) the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel located 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Jerusalem and 6 miles (10 kilometers) northwest of Shechem

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: corresponding to H8111

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Ezra 4:10: "and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time."
Ezra 4:17: "and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river,"