Strong’s
H8189Proper name, a place3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Joshua 15:36וְשַׁעֲרַיִם
Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim)—fourteen cities, along with their villages.
- 1 Samuel 17:52שַׁעֲרַיִם
Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. And the bodies of the Philistines were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
- 1 Chronicles 4:31וּבְשַׁעֲרָיִם
Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
שַׁעֲרַ֫יִם n.pr.loc.
1. in the Shephelah of Judah
2. in the Negeb (Simeon)
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.