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Ancient capital of Israel
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samaria
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Samaria ( ; ; ) was an ancient city in the Land of Israel . It was the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th and 8th centuries BC. The ruins of the city are located in the Samaria mountains of the West Bank and are under the jurisdiction ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Greek Samareia , from Aramaic Shamerayin , ultimately from Hebrew Shomeron , from Shemer , name of the owner who sold the site to King Omri (see 1 Kings xvi:24).
Usage examples of samaria.
Chapter 8 It had been years since John had first been in Samaria, and he had passed through the province then only to see the Baptist at Aenon.
Samastipur in the early hours of the morning and at the branch-line terminus, Samaria Ghat, boarded the S.
Railway, and was in charge of a fleet of steamers and barges that ferried passengers and metre-gauge wagons between Samaria Ghat and Mokameh Ghat.
My duties extended across the river to Samaria Ghat where I had a clerical and menial staff a hundred strong.
As swiftly as she could, she negotiated the tunnels of the Eyri, warren, all carved from the rich, warm stone that made the Velo Mountains the most beautiful in Samaria.
Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
He is one of those on whom the tower of Siloam fell not--he is such a one as Jesus Christ found not in all Samaria, who, in his own soul, throws the first stone at the woman taken in adultery.
Yes, John and Peter trekked to Samaria , but the ministries of the apostles remained intact in Jerusalem for this period of time.
Notable among those who leave is the deacon Philip, who converts and baptizes many in Samaria.
Spells, incantations, magical texts, exorcisms, and various forms of demonological phenomena abound in archeological discoveries from Samaria and Babylon.
First, the Assyrian colonies, which came and occupied the lands of the tribes, filled the kingdom of Samaria with dogmas of the Magi, which very soon penetrated into the kingdom of Judea.
Next came Samaria, dirty, trodden by idolators, with a well in the center and a rouged and powdered woman drawing water.
As descendants of old English nobles still cherish in the traditions of their houses how that this king or that king tarried a day with some favored ancestor three hundred years ago, no doubt the descendants of the woman of Samaria, living there in Shechem, still refer with pardonable vanity to this conversation of their ancestor, held some little time gone by, with the Messiah of the Christians.