- Σαμάρεια
- Σαμάρεια, ας, ἡ (to be spelled and accented on the analogy of Ἀλεξάνδρεια etc.; s. B-D-F §38, but also Rob. 197; Mlt-H. 147) Samaria (the Gk. form of the name in Polyb. 5, 71, 11; Strabo 16, 2, 34; Diod S 19, 93, 7; Pliny 5, 13, 17; LXX; ParJer 8:11; AscIs; Joseph. index), orig. the name of the city (Hebr. שֹׁמְרוֹן, Aram. שָׁמְרַיִן), though not so in our lit., then transferred to the whole province which, in NT times, included the region fr. the Plain of Jezreel southward to the border of Judea. J 4:4 (Jos., Vi. 269 ἔδει διʼ ἐκείνης [=τ. Σαμαρείας] πορεύεσθαι, Ant. 20, 118); 4:5; Ac 8:9, 14. W. Judea 1:8; 8:1; w. Judea and Galilee 9:31; w. Galilee Lk 17:11; w. Phoenicia Ac 15:3. γυνὴ ἐκ τῆς Σαμαρείας a Samaritan woman J 4:7. ἡ πόλις τῆς Σαμαρείας the (main) city of Samaria (s. πόλις 1), i.e. the city of Samaria which, since the time of Herod the Great, was known as Sebaste Ac 8:5 (on this s. JBoehmer, ZNW 9, 1908, 216–18).—GHölscher, Palästina in der persischen u. hellenist. Zeit 1903; Baedeker, Palästina u. Syrien7 1910; HGuthe, RE XVII 1906, 419ff; XXIV 1913, 448f; Schürer index, s. esp. II 16f n. 50; LHaefeli, Gesch. der Landschaft Sam. von 722 B.C. bis 67 A.D. 1922; AParrot, Samaria, trans. SHooke, ’58.—Kl. Pauly IV 1529f; BHHW III 1655–60; OEANE II 463–67; TRE XXIX, 744–50.—M-M. DBS XI, 740–56. TW.
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