Shem
שֵׁםStrong’s H8035shem
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shem is the Hebrew word usually translated “shem”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32
How it's translated
- shem 15
- and shem 1
- and to shem 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 13
- 1 Chronicles 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 7:13In 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;
- Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:23And 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.
- Genesis 9:26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 9:27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁם shem · Shem
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 (H0804H), Elam (H5867C), Arpachshad (H0775), Lud (H3865) and Aram (H0758) Also named: Sēm (Σήμ "Shem" G4590) § Shem = "name" the eldest son of Noah and progenitor of the Semitic tribes
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.