Bible Names

Shechem: meaning of the name

Shechem means “part; portion; back early in the morning.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shechem in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁכֶם H7927

Shᵉkem (shek-em') — Shekem, a place in Palestine

the same as H7926 (שְׁכֶם); ridge;

שֶׁכֶם H7928

Shekem (sheh'-kem) — Shekem, the name of a Hivite and two Israelites

for H7926 (שְׁכֶם);

People named Shechem in the Bible

Places named Shechem

Shechem in Scripture

“Shechem” appears in 55 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 33:18

    And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

  • Genesis 33:19

    And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

  • Genesis 34:2

    And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

  • Genesis 34:4

    And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

  • Genesis 34:6

    And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

  • Genesis 34:8

    And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

  • Genesis 34:11

    And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

  • Genesis 34:13

    And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: