8152. Shinar
Brown-Driver-Briggs
שִׁנְעָר proper name, of a location Shinar = Babylonia (= Babylonian Šumêr according to COTGenesis 11:1 and others, > denied by HalRev. Crit. 1883, 44 JenZK ii(1885), 419; Egyptian Sangar (WMMAs.u.Eur.279), Tel Amarna Šan—ar (WklTelAm. 25) identification with ׳שׁ by MeyEgyptiaca 63; compare, further, PinchesHast. DB SHINAR); — ׳אֶרֶץ שׁ Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Zechariah 5:11; Daniel 1:2; ׳מֶלֶךְשֿׁ (Amraphel) Genesis 14:2,9; ׳שׁ alone Isaiah 11:11 (as place of diaspora); ׳אַדֶּרֶת שׁ Joshua 7:21; ᵐ5 usually Σεν(ν)ααρ; Zechariah 5:11 (ἐν γῆ) Βαβυλῶνος.

שְׁנָת sleep, see שֵׁנָה below יָשֵׁן.

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וּמִשִּׁנְעָר֙ ומשנער שִׁנְעָ֑ר שִׁנְעָ֔ר שִׁנְעָ֖ר שִׁנְעָֽר׃ שִׁנְעָר֩ שנער שנער׃ shinAr šin‘ār šin·‘ār ū·miš·šin·‘ār umishshinAr ūmiššin‘ār
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