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shoÌ„ō´na-mı̄t (ש×× ×žÖ¼×™×ª, shunammı̄th, ש××•Ö¼× ×žÖ¼×™×ª, shuÌ„nammı̄th; Codex Vaticanus Σωμανεῖτις, SoÌ„maneıÌtis; Codex Alexandrinus Σουμανιτῆς, SoumaniteÌ„Ìs): 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 (, ; , etc.).
(2) The woman, name unknown, whose son Elisha raised from the dead (, 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 (-6).
(3) The Shulammite (). In this name there is the exchange of l for n which is common.