Strong's #8152: Shin`ar (pronounced shin-awr')

probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia:--Shinar.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shin‛âr

Shinar = "country of two rivers"

1) the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: probably of foreign derivation

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Genesis 10:10: "and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
Genesis 11:2: "from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there."
Genesis 14:1: "in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer"
Genesis 14:9: "of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four"
Joshua 7:21: "among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver,"
Isaiah 11:11: "and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam,"
Daniel 1:2: "of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought"
Zechariah 5:11: "me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon"