Samaria
sho.me.ron is the place name for the city and its surrounding cities, associated with Israelite kings, siege, settlement, and return.
The term consistently functions as a proper place name: a built city and royal location, a destination or point of return, and—where “cities” are mentioned—an area containing multiple cities. The supplied verses place it in accounts of kingship, military siege, burial, worship sites, exile, and resettlement.
Senses in use
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Proper name for a city and its cities · dominant
The form is tagged Noun · Proper throughout. In 1 Kings 16:24 the APB renders a mountain being bought, built upon, and the resulting city being named; in 1 Kings 20:1 it renders the city as besieged and fought against. In 2 Kings 17:24 the APB distinguishes “the cities of Samaria” from people taking possession of Samaria and living in its cities, showing the name in both city-focused and wider locational statements.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the term as “Samaria,” whether naming the site of a king’s reign, a destination, a burial place, a besieged location, or “the cities of Samaria.” These renderings confirm the verses’ place references rather than isolate every syntactic contribution of the term.