Shinar
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Shinar
- (biblical) The southern region of Mesopotamia.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:2:
- And it came to passe as they iourneyed from the East, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
- 2022 April 11, Jonathan Haidt, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar.
