Bible Location
Meaning: same as Sharon · 6 cross references · Modern-day map available
Saron is another form of Sharon, the fertile coastal plain between the Mediterranean and the hill country. It is important because biblical writers remember it for beauty, pasture, fruitfulness, and the spread of life and witness along the plain. First appears in 1 Chr 27:29.1
AI summary: Saron carries the same broad significance as Sharon but is preserved here as a distinct textual form. Its references celebrate the plain's fertility and beauty, making it a natural image for abundance and restoration in prophetic and poetic writing. Acts also brings the region into the story of the early church, showing that this productive coastal belt remained an inhabited and connected part of the biblical landscape. The cross references present Saron as a lush plain where natural richness and redemptive imagery meet.1
A plain, a level tract extending from the Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles long and from 8 to 15 miles broad, celebrated for its beauty and fertility (1 Chr. 27:29; Isa. 33:9; 35:2; 65:10). The “rose of Sharon” is celebrated (Cant. 2:1). It is called Lasharon (the article la being here a part of the word) in Josh. 12:18. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.