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shinar
/ˈʃaɪnɑːr/
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What does shinar mean?
proper noun
- The southern region of Mesopotamia.
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/ˈʃaɪnɑːr/
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"They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there," says the Bible.
His counsellors had proposed the plan of erecting such a tower, Nimrod had agreed to it, and it was executed in Shinar by a mob of six hundred thousand men.
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Though on the same authority they believed that the plain of Shinar has seen that confusion of tongues whence sprang all the languages upon earth, they seem to have considered that the words of each separate language were nevertheless derived from this original tongue.