Shiloh

American

[shahy-loh] / ˈʃaɪ loʊ /

noun

a national park in SW Tennessee: Civil War battle 1862.
an ancient town in central Palestine, west of the Jordan River.

Shiloh British

/ ˈʃaɪləʊ /

noun

a town in central ancient Palestine, in Canaan on the E slope of Mount Ephraim: keeping place of the tabernacle and the ark; destroyed by the Philistines

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“You think of segregation as history, but it’s something they lived through,” her classmate Shiloh Durrett, 19, said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Chrissy Salmon, team leader at Shiloh Church, said over the past six months they had seen "a lot more people coming through" as well as a lot "coming for the first time".

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

Among typical dog breeds, the great Anglo-French tricolor hound had the strongest signal at 4.7 to 5.7 percent, followed by the Shiloh shepherd at 2.7 percent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025

Amichai Luria, a long-time settler from Ma'ale Levona and manager of a winery in the nearby settlement of Shiloh, told me the current focus on settler violence was overblown.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

Got one day to decide what to do with Shiloh, and nothing I think on seems right.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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