Bible Names

Sem: meaning of the name

Sem means “same as Shem.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Sem in Hebrew and Greek

שֵׁם H8035

Shêm (shame) — Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity)

the same as H8034 (שֵׁם); name;

Σήμ G4590

Sḗm — Sem (i.e. Shem), a patriarch

of Hebrew origin (H08035);

Sem in Scripture

“Sem” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Luke 3:36

    Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,