(two rivers). The alluvial plain through which the Tigris and Euphrates pass, and probably inclusive of Babylon and Mesopotamia (Gen. 10:10; 11:1-9; Isa. 11:11; Dan. 1:2). It was the seat of the kingdom founded by Nimrod, and which reckoned among its cities, as beginnings, Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh (Gen. 10:9-10). Asshur went forth from Shiner to found Nineveh (Gen. 10:11). It was in the plain in the land of Shinar that the migrating nation undertook to build the tower of Babel, and where the confusion of tongues occurred (Gen. 11:1-9).