Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Khirbet Sumara

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Also Called	Khirbet es Sumara, Khirbet Somera, Khirbet Somerah
Latitude, Longitude	31.418400, 34.931800
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	143525/091854
Type	settlement
Point Precision	archaeological site in modern settlement
Coordinates Sources	Amud Anan Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000): Shamir (place) Palestine Open Maps
General Location Notes	Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Shamir (place)): “20 km southwest of Hebron”
Precise Coordinates Notes	while Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land calls this site Simye, the print map shows it as Khirbet Sumara
Geo Data	KML (for Google Earth) GeoJSON (for GIS applications)

Biblical places associated with Khirbet Sumara

Shamir 1: low confidence
Shaphir: very low confidence
Shamir 2: very low confidence

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Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)

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