Strong's #8111: Shomrown (pronounced sho-mer-one')
from the active participle of 8104; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine:--Samaria.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shômerôn
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: from the active participle of H8104
Usage:
This word is used 109 times:
Amos 3:9: "Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst"
Amos 3:12: "shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus"
Amos 4:1: "of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy,"
Amos 6:1: "in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house"
Amos 8:14: "They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner"
Obadiah 1:19: "the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead."
Micah 1:1: "which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem."
Micah 1:5: "is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not"
Micah 1:6: "Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones"
