Difference between revisions of "Shunammite"

<p> ''''' shōō´na ''''' - ''''' mı̄t ''''' ( שׁנמּית , <i> ''''' shunammı̄th ''''' </i> , שׁוּנמּית , <i> ''''' shūnammı̄th ''''' </i> ; Codex Vaticanus Σωμανεῖτις , <i> ''''' Sōmaneı́tis ''''' </i> ; Codex Alexandrinus Σουμανιτῆς , <i> ''''' Soumanitḗs ''''' </i> ): [[Applied]] to natives of Shunem. </p> <p> (1) Abishag, who was brought to minister to the aged king David, love for whom led [[Adonijah]] to his doom (&nbsp;1 Kings 1:3 , &nbsp;1 Kings 1:15; &nbsp;1 Kings 2:17 , etc.). </p> <p> (2) The woman, name unknown, whose son Elisha raised from the dead (&nbsp;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 (&nbsp;2 Kings 8:1-6 ). </p> <p> (3) The [[Shulammite]] (&nbsp;Song of [[Solomon]] 6:13 ). In this name there is the exchange of <i> ''''' l ''''' </i> for <i> ''''' n ''''' </i> which is common. </p>

<p> (Heb. with the art. hash-Shunammith'. '''''השּׁוּנִמּית''''' [in &nbsp;1 Kings 2:22, the shorter form '''''הִשֻּׁמַּית''''' ], ''The Shunammitess'' ; Sept. '''''Ἡ''''' '''''Σωμανεῖτις''''' v.r. '''''Σουμανιτις''''' ) '','' a native of SHUNEM, as is plain from &nbsp;2 Kings 4:1. It is applied to two persons '''''—''''' Abishag, the nurse of king David (&nbsp;1 Kings 1:3; &nbsp;1 Kings 1:15; &nbsp;1 Kings 2:17; &nbsp;1 Kings 2:21-22), and the nameless hostess of Elisha (&nbsp;2 Kings 4:12; &nbsp;2 Kings 4:25; &nbsp;2 Kings 4:36). See Woodward, Lectures on the Shunammite (Lond. 1840). The modern representative of Shunem being Solam, some have suggested (as Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 1379 b), or positively affirmed (as Furst, Handwb. 2, 422), that Shunammite is identical with Shulammite (&nbsp;Song of Solomon 6:13). But this lacks probability. </p>