Samaria is an English word with synonyms like city or metropolis. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Samaria meaning
- Former name of Sebastia: a city in the West Bank, Palestine; the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel.
- An ancient region of the region of Palestine, mostly in the northern part of the modern West Bank.
- A locality in the Rural City of Benalla, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
Synonyms of Samaria
Using Samaria
- The main meaning on this page is: Former name of Sebastia: a city in the West Bank, Palestine; the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel. | An ancient region of the region of Palestine, mostly in the northern part of the modern West Bank. | A locality in the Rural City of Benalla, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
- Useful related words include: city, metropolis, urban center.
- In the example corpus, samaria often appears in combinations such as: and samaria, samaria and, of samaria.
Context around Samaria
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Samaria
- In this selection, "samaria" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, northern, judea, central, israel and east stand out and add context to how "samaria" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include judea and samaria and in northern samaria. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "samaria" sits close to words such as afterthought, avatars and basingstoke, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with samaria
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Brigade usually operates in Judea and Samaria. (8 words)
I realize that the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria are not going anywhere. (13 words)
An Israeli soldier during an overnight counter terror operation in Judea and Samaria. (13 words)
A Delhi court had awarded four-year jail term to them while the former coal secretary, H.C. Gupta and two other officials, K.S. Kropha and K.C. Samaria, were handed a three-year jail sentence, the court imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on M/s JLD Yavatmal. (51 words)
It says: Until the middle of the 20th century it was customary to believe that the Samaritans originated from a mixture of the people living in Samaria and other peoples at the time of the conquest of Samaria by Assyria (722–721 BCE). (43 words)
We had no doubt that this outpost should be established as soon as possible to strengthen Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria,” said Farkash before the evacuation, using the biblical term for the West Bank commonly used in Hebrew. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
It says: Until the middle of the 20th century it was customary to believe that the Samaritans originated from a mixture of the people living in Samaria and other peoples at the time of the conquest of Samaria by Assyria (722–721 BCE).
A Delhi court had awarded four-year jail term to them while the former coal secretary, H.C. Gupta and two other officials, K.S. Kropha and K.C. Samaria, were handed a three-year jail sentence, the court imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on M/s JLD Yavatmal.
A year after the IDF launched the massive counter-terror effort in Judea and Samaria, Israel is still grappling with a Palestinian terror wave, but many innocent lives have been saved, says IDF officer.
In similar situations in the past, Israel increased funding for research in Judea and Samaria so that those institutions would not lose out, he said.
I realize that the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria are not going anywhere.
Israel should replace the P.A. and take complete control of its territory so that terrorists in Judea and Samaria have no place to take refuge.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the United States is responsible for Israeli incursions into Palestinian Authority-occupied towns in Judea and Samaria.
Rooted in a deal between corrupt PM Ariel Sharon and the prosecution, the expulsion uprooted all the Jews of the Gaza Strip and four settlements in northern Samaria.
Routinely, the State Department warned that construction in Jerusalem (beyond the “Green Line”) and in Judea and Samaria would trigger a terroristic volcano and push Egypt away from the peace treaty.
The Brigade usually operates in Judea and Samaria.
The latter phoned to ask that Ukraine oppose a United Nations calling for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue a legal opinion on the Israeli presence in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
The main challenge is to have the Palestinian security forces resume their collaboration with the IDF and have them exert their control in northern Samaria.
The Palestinian Authority is building illegally in large portions of Judea and Samaria, with the aim of creating a de facto Palestinian state and thus avoiding required peace negotiations.
Those who responded in the negative (43%) were asked whether the extension of Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria would change their mind, and roughly one third (29%) said that it would.
Two Israelis were wounded in a shooting attack overnight Wednesday while they were driving near Itamar, southeast of Shechem (Nablus) in central Samaria.
We had no doubt that this outpost should be established as soon as possible to strengthen Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria,” said Farkash before the evacuation, using the biblical term for the West Bank commonly used in Hebrew.
An Israeli soldier during an overnight counter terror operation in Judea and Samaria.
As part of the Shin Bet operation against Munir Makdah, a significant number of advanced weapons that had been smuggled into Judea and Samaria were seized.
Criminal records in the big cities include the entire variety of violence, while in Judea and Samaria, it’s nationalist crime.
Evidently, the areas in question, Judea, Samaria, east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, that were occupied by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, do not appear to have been “Palestinian territories” until they were liberated by Israel in 1967.
Common combinations with samaria
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and samaria 48×
- samaria and 13×
- of samaria 12×
- in samaria 9×
- northern samaria 6×
- judea samaria 4×
- samaria is 4×
- samaria the 4×
- samaria in 4×
- samaria were 3×