Strong's H8152 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: שִׁנְעָר (Shinʻâr)

Pronunciation: shin-awr'

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Shinar = "country of two rivers"

Derivation: probably of foreign derivation;

Definition: Shinar, a plain in Babylonia

KJV Renderings: Shinar.

Senses

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

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.