1 Kings 16:24

the hill Samaria This is the first historic mention of the place which subsequently became famous, as the chief city in Israel, and gave name to a people and a district. Where the word occurs in 1 Kings 13:32, it is a later writer who is using, before its proper date, a name which to him and his readers was perfectly familiar. (See note there.) Samaria is the Greek form of the name, but the derivation from -Shemer," the former owner, becomes apparent if the word be written in its Hebrew form -Shomeron."

The LXX. inserts -the owner of the hill" after the first mention of Shemer in this verse, as well as after the second; also it reads -and he called the name of the mountain wherehe built" instead of the exact rendering of the Hebrew as in A. V.