place
Shahazumah
שַׁחֲצִ֫ימָה
Shahazumah was a town on the border of Issachar's territory (Josh. 19:22).
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Joshua 19:22
- last named
- Joshua 19:22
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.54°N · 35.37°E
El Karm (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Shahazumah in the text
Shahazumah is mentioned only once in the Bible, in the description of the territorial allotment for the tribe of Issachar (Josh. 19:22). The town is listed as one of the border points of Issachar's territory, along with Beth-shemesh and En-gannim. The exact location of Shahazumah is unknown, but it was likely situated in the region of the Jezreel Valley, north of Mount Gilboa. The name "Shahazumah" is of uncertain meaning and origin, and no other historical or archaeological information about the town has been discovered. Its mention in the biblical text serves to delineate the extent of Issachar's territory and provides insight into the geographical distribution of the Israelite tribes during the period of the conquest and settlement of Canaan.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Jordan1 event
- Tabor Mount1 event
- Beth-shemesh1 event
The pattern
Where Shahazumah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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