shunamit · Shunammite

What it means

shunamit (שׁוּנַמִּית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Shunammite”.

A woman from Shunem, a town of the tribe of Issachar, in the north of Israel. Abishag is called this, and so is the woman who gave lodging to the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A woman of Shunem, a town of Issachar.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×3

• 1 Kings 1:3

  So they sought a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.

• 1 Kings 1:15

  So Bathsheba went in to the king, into the chamber; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

• 1 Kings 2:17

  And he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king — for he will not refuse you — that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

• 1 Kings 2:21

  And she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife.”

• 1 Kings 2:22

  And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom — for he is my brother, older than I — for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

• 2 Kings 4:12

  He said to Gehazi, his young man, “Call this Shunammite.” He called her, and she stood before him.

• 2 Kings 4:25

  She went and came to the man of Elohim at Mount Carmel. And it happened, when the man of Elohim saw her from a distance, that he said to Gehazi, his young man, “Look, that Shunammite.

• 2 Kings 4:36

  He called to Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” He called her, and she came to him, and he said, “Pick up your son.”