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Shulamite Woman
The Shulamite woman is the woman called "the Shulamite" in the Old Testament book of the Song of Songs. She is commonly understood to be the female speaker who exchanges songs of love with her beloved in the book.
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- Song of SongsBible
The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.
- Song of Songs 6Bible
Song of Songs 6 contains a question about where the departed beloved has gone, the woman's declaration of their mutual belonging, the man's song praising the woman as his one and only love, and a passage that calls to the "Shulamite."
- Shunammite WomanPeople
The Shunammite woman is an unnamed woman from Shunem who appears in 2 Kings 4 and 8. She showed hospitality to the prophet Elisha, bore a son in fulfillment of his prophecy, and saw that son restored to life through Elisha after he died.
- ShunemBible
Shunem was a town of the tribe of Issachar in the Jezreel Valley. It is known as the hometown of the Shunammite woman who hosted Elisha and of Abishag, who attended David.
- 2 Kings 4Bible
2 Kings 4 records five miracles performed by Elisha in succession: the widow's oil, the birth of the Shunammite woman's son and his restoration to life, the neutralizing of a poisoned stew, and the feeding of a hundred men with twenty loaves of barley.
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