שׁוּנַמִּית
Shunammite
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7767 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 1:3 הַ/שּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
- 1 Kings 1:15 הַ/שּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
- 1 Kings 2:17 הַ/שּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs He said, Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
- 1 Kings 2:21 הַ/שֻּׁנַמִּ֑ית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.
- 1 Kings 2:22 הַ/שֻּׁנַמִּית֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
שונמית (Shûwnammîyth) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Shunammite.” 1 Kings dominates its distribution — 5 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in 1 Kings 1:3. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7767 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shunammite 8×
- American Standard Version: Shunammite 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shunammite 5×, Shunammite woman 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shunammitess 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7767 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7767 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7767 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7767 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Shunammite = see Shunen " double resting place"
- an inhabitant of Shunem
Word origin
שׁוּנַמִּית adj.gent. f. of foregoing [ v.bu.ah ]
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שונם (Shûwnêm) (H7766) — Shunem.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H7767 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/שּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 1:3 | 2 |
| הַ/שֻּׁנַמִּ֑ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 2:21 | 1 |
| הַ/שֻּׁנַמִּ֣ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 4:36 | 1 |
| הַ/שֻּׁנַמִּית֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 2:22 | 1 |
| הַ/שּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 2:17 | 1 |
| הַ/שּׁוּנַמִּ֥ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 4:25 | 1 |
| לַ/שּׁוּנַמִּ֣ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 4:12 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shunammite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A person of Shunem (1 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 4:12). The Syr. and Arab. read "Sulamite."
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
