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Shinar

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Shinar (shī`när), in the Bible, the whole or a part of Babylonia.
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Our biblical author elsewhere hints that the earliest cities were in Mesopotamia or Shinar.
An overlooked message: the critique of kings and affirmation of ... by Gnuse, Robert K. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
For example, Shinar (1975) has found that physicist is a highly male stereotyped occupation, and we know that even elementary school children can distinguish occupational stereotypes and base their occupational preferences upon these stereotypes (Tremaine & Schau, 1979).
Spatial working memory and gender differences in Science by Litwiller, Robert M. / Journal of Instructional Psychology
From Shinar the arts were carried to distant parts of the earth notwithstanding the confusion of languages, which gave rise to Masons['] faculty and universal practice of conversing without speaking and of knowing each other by signs and tokens; they settled the dispersion in case any of them should meet in distant parts of the world who had been before in Shinar.
Prince Hall, Freemasonry, and Genealogy by Brooks, Joanna / African American Review
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