שֹׁמְרוֹן109 H8111
Samaria (Shomron) — capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; also the surrounding region
Shomron (Samaria) names both the hilltop city purchased and built by King Omri as the capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24) and, by extension, the surrounding territory. The city served as Israel's political and religious center through the divided monarchy period, featuring prominently in the Elijah and Elisha narratives and in prophetic oracles of judgment. Ezekiel personifies Samaria as a woman alongside Jerusalem (Ezek 16:46; 23:4). The Assyrian conquest of Samaria in 722 BC marked the end of the northern kingdom. Spanish 'Samaria,' French 'Samarie,' and German 'Samarien' all preserve the place name transparently.
Senses
1. Samaria (city/region) — The proper name Shomron (Samaria), designating the fortified capital city founded by Omri on a hill purchased from Shemer (1 Kgs 16:24) and, by metonymy, the northern kingdom's territory. Central to narratives of the Omride dynasty, the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the Assyrian deportation (2 Kgs 17). Ezekiel personifies it as an unfaithful woman (Ezek 23:4), underscoring its symbolic weight in prophetic literature. 109×
AR["السَّامِرَةَ", "السَّامِرَةِ", "السّامِرَةَ", "السّامِرَةِ"]·ben["শমরিয়া", "শমরিয়া।", "শমরিয়াকে", "শমরিয়ায়", "শমরিয়ার"]·DE["Samarien"]·EN["Samaria", "Shomron"]·FR["Samarie"]·heb["שומרון"]·HI["शमरोन", "शमरोन-के", "शोमरोन", "शोमरोन-का", "शोमरोन-की", "शोम्रोन"]·ID["-Samaria", "Samaria", "ke-Samaria"]·IT["Samaria"]·jav["Samaria"]·KO["사마리아", "사마리아-로", "사마리아-에", "사마리아라", "사마리아를", "사마리아에", "사마리아의"]·PT["Samaria", "Shomron"]·RU["-Шомрона", "Самарии", "Шомрон", "Шомрона", "Шомроном", "в-Самарию", "на-Шомрон"]·ES["Samaria", "Shomrón", "a-Samaria"]·SW["Samaria", "la-Samaria", "ya-Samaria"]·TR["Samiriye'nin", "Samiriye'ye", "Samiriye'yi", "Samirya", "Samirya'ya", "Samirye", "Şomron", "Şomron'a"]·urd["سامریہ", "سامریہ-کا", "سامریہ-کی", "سامریہ-کے"]
1 Kgs 16:24, 1 Kgs 16:24, 1 Kgs 20:1, 1 Kgs 20:10, 1 Kgs 21:1, 1 Kgs 22:10, 1 Kgs 22:37, 1 Kgs 22:38, 2 Kgs 1:3, 2 Kgs 2:25, 2 Kgs 6:20, 2 Kgs 6:24 (+38 more)
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
שֹׁמְרוֹן109 n.pr.loc. capital of N. Isr. from Omri’s time (belonging to clan שֶׁמֶר, StaZAW v (1885), 165–175; originally שַׁמְרוֹן or שַׁמְרַיִן; Assyrian Samerîna COT 1 K 16:24);—שׁ׳ 1 K 16:24 (name expl. as from שֶׁמֶר, orig. owner of site), v 28, 29, 32; 20:1, 10 +; שֹׁמְר֫וֹנָה 1 K 20:43; 2 K 6:19; 14:14; personified as woman Ez 16:46, 51, 53, 55; 23:4, 33; king of N. Isarel is מֶלֶךְ שׁ׳ 1…