Lexical Summary Samareia: Samaria, the name of both a city and a region in Palestine Original Word: ΣαμάρειαTransliteration: Samareia Phonetic Spelling: (sam-ar'-i-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Samaria, the name of both a city and a region in Palestine Meaning: Samaria -- the name of both a city and a region in Palestine Strong's Concordance Samaria. Of Hebrew origin (Shomrown); Samaria (i.e. Shomeron), a city and region of Palestine -- Samaria. see HEBREW Shomrown Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4540: ΣαμάρειαΣαμάρεια (on the accent cf. Chandler § 104; Buttmann, 17 (15); Σαμαρια T WH (see Tdf. Proleg., p. 87; cf. Iota); on the forms see Abbot in B. D. American edition, under the word), Σαμαρείας (cf. Buttmann, as above), ἡ (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18, 5{a}) (Hebrew שֹׁמְרון, Chaldean שָׁמְרַיִן pronoun Scha-me-ra-in, Assyr. Samirina) (on the derivation, see B. D., under the word), Samaria; 1. the name of a city built by Omri king of Israel (1 Kings 16:24), on a mountain of the same name (שֹׁמְרון הַר, Amos 6:1), situated in the tribe of Ephraim; it was the capital of the whole region and the residence of the kings of Israel. After having been besieged three years by Shalmaneser (IV.), king of Assyria, it was taken and doubtless devastated by Sargon, his son and successor, 2. the Samaritan territory, the region of Samaria, of which the city Samaria was the capital: Luke 17:11; John 4:4f, 7; Acts 1:8; Acts 8:1, 5 (see above), |