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Strong H8035שֵׁם

Shem

Transliteration
shêm
Pronunciation
shame
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

The same as H8034; name;
{Shem} a son of Noah (often including his posterity): - {Sem} Shem.

Meaning of the name

Shem = "name"

Detailed definition

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32;
son of: Noah (H5146);
brother of: Ham (H2526) and Japheth (H3315);
father of: Asshur (H804H), Elam (H5867C), Arpachshad (H775), Lud (H3865) and Aram (H758)
Also named: Sēm (Σήμ "Shem" G4590)

In the biblical story

Shem

Noah's son, ancestor of Semitic peoples

Shem, one of Noah's three sons and the ancestor of the Semitic peoples.

In the Bible

Strong H8035 appears in 16 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • shem16

First verses

  1. Genesis 5:32
    And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  2. Genesis 6:10
    And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  3. Genesis 7:13
    In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
  4. Genesis 9:18
    And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
  5. Genesis 9:23
    And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
  6. Genesis 9:26
    And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
  7. Genesis 9:27
    God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
  8. Genesis 10:1
    Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
  9. Genesis 10:21
    Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
  10. Genesis 10:22
    The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
  11. Genesis 10:31
    These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
  12. Genesis 11:10
    These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
  13. Genesis 11:11
    And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
  14. 1 Chronicles 1:4
    Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  15. 1 Chronicles 1:17
    The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
  16. 1 Chronicles 1:24
    Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
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