sham marks a location already identified by the narrative, whether people remain, act, arrive, or depart.

The adverb consistently points to a specified location supplied by the surrounding narrative: people live or remain at it, actions occur at it, and movement may proceed away from it. It can refer back to a named city, site, building, battlefield, or other place already in view.

1. Location indicated by the surrounding setting · dominant

   The supplied tokens are tagged Adverb and locate actions or persons at a place already named or implied. In 1 Kings 17:9 the APB renders Elijah's destination and the widow's location as “there”; in 1 Chronicles 21:26 it renders David's altar-building and offerings at the designated site. The same locative use marks continued residence in 1 Kings 2:36, activity at Gibeon in 1 Kings 3:4, and an action at Baal-perazim in 1 Chronicles 14:11.

   1 Kings 17:91 Chronicles 21:261 Kings 2:361 Kings 3:41 Chronicles 14:111 Kings 19:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly presents the locative relation with “there,” and sometimes with “from there” when movement away from a location is in view. These renderings confirm the clauses' location-setting function rather than provide a precise token-by-token translation.