Strong’s H8189 · Hebrew
שַׁעֲרַיִם
Shaʻărayim · shah-ar-ah'-yim
Origin dual of שַׁעַר (H8179); double gates;
Meaning Shaarajim, a place in Palestine
In the King James Version Shaaraim.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Joshua 15:36And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
- 1 Samuel 17:52And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
- 1 Chronicles 4:31And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.