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