Shoulder
שְׁכֶםStrong’s H7926shekhem (she-khem)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shekhem is the Hebrew word usually translated “shoulder his”, “shoulder her” and “shoulder”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Shoulder, backshoulder, shoulder-blade · back (in general)
How it's translated
- shoulder his 7
- shoulder her 3
- a shoulder 3
- from shoulder his 2
- shoulder its 2
- shoulder of 1
- shoulder their 1
- shoulder my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Isaiah 5
- 1 Samuel 3
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
- Joshua 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:45And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
- Genesis 48:22Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
- Genesis 49:15And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
- Exodus 12:34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁכֶם shekhem · shoulder
1) shoulder, back 1a) shoulder, shoulder-blade 1b) back (in general) Also means: shikh.mah (שִׁכְמָה "shoulder" H7929)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shoulder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOULDER, noun
- The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scapula or shoulder blades, which extend from the basis of the neck in a horizontal direction.
- The upper joint of the fore leg of an animal cut for th emarket; as a shoulder of mutton.
- Shoulders, in the plural, the upper part of the back.
- Figuratively, support; sustaining power; or that which elevates and sustains.
All definitions and other forms of “shoulder”
- Among artificers, something like the human shoulder; a horizontal or rectangular projection from the body of a thing.
SHOULDER, verb transitive
- To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence.
- To take upon the shoulder; as, to shoulder a basket.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.