Strong's H8111 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן (Shômᵉrôwn)

Pronunciation: sho-mer-one'

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Samaria = "watch mountain"

Derivation: from the active participle of שָׁמַר (shâmar) [H8104]; watch-station;

Definition: Shomeron, a place in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Samaria.

Senses

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 km) north of Jerusalem and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Shechem

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.