Shunammite

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Easton's Bible Dictionary - Shunammite

Shunammite [N]

a person of Shunem ( 1 Kings 1:3 ; 2 Kings 4:12 ). The Syr. and Arab. read "Sulamite."

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
Bibliography Information

Easton, Matthew George. "Entry for Shunammite". "Easton's Bible Dictionary". .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shunammite

SHUNAMMITE

shoo'-na-mit (shunammith, shunammith; Codex Vaticanus Somaneitis; Codex Alexandrinus Soumanites):

Applied to natives of Shunem.

(1) Abishag, who was brought to minister to the aged king David, love for whom led Adonijah to his doom (1 Kings 1:3,15; 2:17, etc.).

(2) The woman, name unknown, whose son Elisha raised from the dead (2 Kings 4:12, etc.). Later when apparently she had become a widow, after seven years' absence on account of famine, in the land of the Philistines, she returned to find her property in the hands of others. Elisha's intervention secured its restoration (2 Kings 8:1-6).

(3) The Shulammite (Song of Solomon 6:13). In this name there is the exchange of "l" for "n" which is common.

W. Ewing

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Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SHUNAMMITE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.