Samaria (i.e. Shomeron), a city and region of Palestine
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Σαμάρεια names Samaria, the region associated with Samaritan people and contested worship history. In John 4, the place matters because Jesus passes through Samaria and speaks with a Samaritan woman near Jacob's well.
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Σαμάρεια names Samaria, the region associated with Samaritan people and contested worship history. In John 4, the place matters because Jesus passes through Samaria and speaks with a Samaritan woman near Jacob's well.
The BSB source-word alignment has 11 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Samaria (7), of Samaria (2), [in] Samaria (1), [When] a Samaritan (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 17:11. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (7), John (3), Luke (1).
Σαμάρεια names Samaria, the region associated with Samaritan people and contested worship history. In John 4, the place matters because Jesus passes through Samaria and speaks with a Samaritan woman near Jacob's well. The region is not a neutral backdrop. It carries boundary, history, suspicion, and mission significance.
The pastoral value is boundary-crossing revelation without sentimental flattening. John does not pretend the Jewish-Samaritan divide is imaginary, but he also does not let that divide limit Jesus' saving disclosure. In Samaria, Jesus speaks of living water, true worship, harvest, and the Savior of the world. The name helps teachers show how Christ's mission crosses real barriers without ignoring truth.
John 4:4 uses Σαμάρεια when the Gospel says Jesus had to pass through Samaria.
Σαμάρεια tells readers that John 4 is not only a private conversation. The region carries history, conflict, and contested worship. Jesus enters that setting rather than avoiding it.
The Samaritan woman receives Jesus' direct messianic disclosure, bears witness to her city, and many Samaritans come to believe. The passage climaxes in their confession that Jesus is the Savior of the world.
The name helps teachers preach mission with both truth and mercy. Jesus crosses real barriers, but He does so by revealing Himself, not by minimizing worship, sin, or salvation.
In John 4, Σαμάρεια marks the boundary-crossing setting where Jesus reveals living water, true worship, harvest, and His identity as Savior of the world.
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Greek word. Samaria (i.e. Shomeron), a city and region of Palestine
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Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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This word opens the boundary-crossing setting of John 4. It helps readers see Samaria as the place where Jesus speaks living water, true worship, harvest, and Savior-of-the-world identity.
It corrects readings that make Samaria a mere map label, and readings that turn the passage into social inclusion without Jesus' truth and saving identity.
Frame Σαμάρεια through John 4:4-42. The region matters because Jesus' mission enters a contested place and bears witness to His world-embracing salvation.
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