Place · Region
Saron
Also known as Sharon
Named in 6 verses across 4 books, first in Acts 9:35.
In the Bible
All 1 verse in Acts, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Acts
- Acts 9:35
and all who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Saron. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. AD 38Peter heals Aeneas and Dorcas
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
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.