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Strong's #8289 - שָׁרוֹן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- n m
- plain, level
- Sharon = "a plain"
- n pr loc
- the district lying between the mountains of central Palestine and the Mediterranean Sea and north of Joppa
- a district on the east of the Jordan around Gilead and Bashan
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noun masculine Isaiah 65:10 plain, level; —
1׳הַשּׁ (with article), name of maritime plain on Mediterranean, from Joppa northward, noted for fertility, Isaiah 33:9 ("" בָּשָׁן, כַּרְמֶל; ᵐ5 ὁ Σαρων), compare הֲדַר כַּרְמֶל וְהַשָּׁרוֺן Isaiah 35:2; Isaiah 65:10 ("" עֵמֶקעָכוֺר; ᵐ5 τῷ δρυμῷ); ׳חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשּׁ Song of Solomon 2:1 (ᵐ5 ἄνθος τοῦ πεδίου); ׳הַבָּקָר הָרֹעִים בַּשּׁ 1 Chronicles 27:29; so also Joshua 12:18; where read ׳מֶלֶךְ אֲפֵק לַשּׁ, so Di We Sam 55 Ges12after ᵐ5, compare RS OTJC 2,273, 435. — On this plain see GASm Geogr. 147 ff. Buhl Geogr. § 65.
2מִגְרְשֵׁי שָׁרוֺן, region east of Jordan 1 Chronicles 5:16 ("" גִּלְעָד, בָּשָׁן; ᵐ5 τὰ περίχωρα Γεριαμ,ᵐ5 A Σαρων); identified by many with הַמִּישׁוֺר ( Deuteronomy 3:10 etc., see above)
לַשָּׁרוֺן Joshua 12:8 see שָׁרוֺן.
לתח (√ of following; meaning unknown; Thes conjectures spread out, compare Samaritan נתח spread out garment, see also Di Lex. Ethiopic 45f., but this word very dubious).
שָׁרוֺן proper name, of a locationשָׁרוֺנִי
adjective, of a people ( 1 Chronicles 27:29) see ישׁר.
שׁרות Jeremiah 15:11 see I. שׁרה; שָׁרוֺתֶיהָ Jeremiah 5:10 see II. שׁוּר, שׁוּרָה. above
שִׁרְטַי 1 Chronicles 27:29 Qr, see שִׁטְרַי
שָׁרוֹן (for יְשָׁרוֹן “plain,” “plain country”), every where with the art. הַשָּׁרוֹן Sharon, pr.n. of a plain country near the Mediterranean Sea, between Cæsarea and Joppa, remarkable for the fertility of its fields and pastures, Joshua 12:18; Song of Solomon 2:1; Isaiah 33:9, 35:2 65:10 1 Chronicles 27:29. Some understand another plain of the same name to be spoken of, 1 Chronicles 5:16, for which, however, there is no occasion; [In Thes. Gesenius favours this supposition], Relandi Palæst. p. 188, 370.-Hence שָׁרוֹנִי a Sharonite, 1 Chronicles 27:29.
