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(Heb. with the art. hash-Shunammith'. äùּׁåּðִîּéú [in 1Ki_2:22, the shorter form äִùֻּׁîַּéú ], the Shunammitess; Sept. ἡ Óùìáíåῖôéò v.r. Óïõìáíéôéò ), a native of SHUNEM, as is plain from 2Ki_4:1. It is applied to two persons — Abishag, the nurse of king David (1Ki_1:3; 1Ki_1:15; 1Ki_2:17; 1Ki_2:21-22), and the nameless hostess of Elisha (2Ki_4:12; 2Ki_4:25; 2Ki_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 (Son_6:13). But this lacks probability.