Bible Names

Shem: meaning of the name

Shem means “name; renown.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shem in Hebrew and Greek

שֵׁם H8035

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

the same as H8034 (שֵׁם); name;

Who named Shem in the Bible

Shem in Scripture

“Shem” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 5:32

    And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 6:10

    And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Genesis 9:26

    And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  • Genesis 9:27

    God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  • 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.