Shunammite

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

A person of Shunem (1 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 4:12). The Syr. and Arab. read “Sulamite.”

Scripture References

ISBE

shoo'-na-mit (shunammith, shunammith; Codex Vaticanus Somaneitis; Codex Alexandrinus Soumanites): 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 ( 1Ki 1:3 , 15 ; 2:17 , etc.). (2) The woman, name unknown, whose son Elisha raised from the dead ( 2Ki 4:12 , 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 ( 2Ki 8:1-6 ). (3) The Shulammite ( So 6:13 ). In this name there is the exchange of "l" for "n" which is common. W. Ewing