1. Samaria (proper noun, the region/city) — The proper noun designating the region (and its chief city) in central Palestine between Judea and Galilee, significant in the NT as the homeland of the Samaritans and a key mission field (Acts 1:8, 8:1-14; John 4:4-7). All 11 occurrences refer to the same geographical entity across various grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Swahili 'Samaria/Samareia', Hindi 'Samariya', Korean 'Samaria', Arabic 'al-Samira/Samira', Spanish 'Samaria/Samareia'. The S76325 cluster (3x, genitive) is a purely case-driven split from S76324 (8x, genitive/dative/nominative/accusative) with identical referent and no semantic distinction. 11×
AR["السَامِرَةُ","السَامِرَةِ","السَّامِرَةِ","السّامِرَةِ","سامِرَةَ","سَامِرَةِ"]·ben["শমরিয়া","শমরিয়ায়","শমরিয়ার","শমরীয়ার","শেষ"]·DE["Samaria","Samarien"]·EN["Samareia","of-Samaria"]·FR["Samarie"]·heb["שֹׁמְרוֹן","שׁוֹמְרוֹן"]·HI["सामरिया","सामरिया-का","सामरिया-ने","सामरिया।"]·ID["Samaria","Samaria,","Samaria."]·IT["Samaria","samareias"]·jav["Samaria","Samaria,","Samaria."]·KO["까지","사마리아","사마리아-가","사마리아-의","사마리아를","사마리아와"]·PT["Samaria","Samaria,","Samaria.","de-Samaria"]·RU["Самарии","Самарии,","Самарию","Самария","самарийский"]·ES["Samaria","Samaréia","Samáreia","Samáreias","Samária"]·SW["Samaria","Samaréia"]·TR["Samiriye","Samiriye'den","Samiriye'nin","Samiriye'yi","ve"]·urd["سامریہ"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
Σᾰμάρεια [ᾰρ], ἡ, “Samaria”, a city of Palestine, called Sebaste by Herod, Refs 1st c.BC+; also as name of a region, NT; of a village in Egypt, Refs 3rd c.BC+:—Σᾰμᾰρίτης [ῑ], ου (Doric dialect Σαμαρ-ίτας Refs 2nd c.BC+, ὁ, Samaritan, NT; feminine Σαμαρ-ῖτις, ιδος, NT (Σαμαρ-εῖτις Refs:—also Σᾰμᾰρεύς, έως, Refs 5th c.AD+