Lexical Summary Shomeroni: Samaritan Original Word: שֹׁמרֹנִי Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Samaritans Patrial from Shomrown; a Shomeronite (collectively) or inhabitants of Shomeron -- Samaritans. see HEBREW Shomrown NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom Shomron Definition inhab. of Samaria NASB Translation people of Samaria (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs [שֹׁמְרֹנִי] adjective, of a people Samaritan, only as plural noun הַשֹּׁמְוֺנִים 2 Kings 17:29 the Samaritans. Topical Lexicon Overview Shomroni designates an inhabitant of Samaria and appears once in the Hebrew canon (2 Kings 17:29). Though rare in occurrence, the term anchors a key turning point in Israel’s history—the Assyrian conquest and resettlement that reshaped the region’s ethnic and religious landscape and laid the groundwork for the later Samaritan community encountered in the Gospels. Historical Setting 2 Kings 17 recounts the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 722 B.C. After deporting the Israelites, the Assyrians imported peoples from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:24). These settlers became “Samaritans” in the sense of residents of the former capital district. Their arrival produced a hybrid population whose loyalties were divided between residual Yahwistic practices and the deities of their homelands. Textual Usage “Nevertheless, each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines of the high places the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they had settled” (2 Kings 17:29). Here Shomroni functions adjectivally, describing the builders of illicit high places. The verse highlights three themes: 1. Syncretism—local shrines became repositories for foreign idols. Religious and Cultural Aftermath The syncretistic worship introduced by the new “Samaritans” explains later tensions: Thus Shomroni, though only once mentioned, marks the birth of a community that mixed reverence for the Pentateuch with practices condemned by the prophets. Canonical Trajectory By the first century, “Samaritan” had become an ethnic-religious label carrying both stigma and surprising promise: Shomroni therefore anticipates the biblical arc from estrangement to reconciliation, illustrating God’s redemptive reach across entrenched hostilities. Theological Reflections 1. God judges unfaithfulness—Assyria’s conquest fulfilled prophetic warnings (Hosea 10:5-8). Ministry Implications • Cultural hybridity demands discernment: modern believers, like ancient Israel, must resist syncretism while engaging neighbors. Forms and Transliterations הַשֹּׁ֣מְרֹנִ֔ים השמרנים haš·šō·mə·rō·nîm hashShomeroNim haššōmərōnîmLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance 2 Kings 17:29 HEB: אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשׂוּ֙ הַשֹּׁ֣מְרֹנִ֔ים גּ֥וֹי גּוֹי֙ NAS: which the people of Samaria had made, KJV: of the high places which the Samaritans had made, INT: which had made the people every nation 1 Occurrence |
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