H8035: שֵׁם
Shêm · pronounced shame · “Shem”
Definition
Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity)
KJV translates it as: Sem, Shem.
Word origin: the same as H8034 (שֵׁם); name;
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8035 is translated
- shem ×17
Bible verses with H8035 (Shêm)
Shêm appears in 16 verses.
- 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.
- Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
- Genesis 10:22
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
- Genesis 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
- Genesis 11:10
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
- Genesis 11:11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- 1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
- 1 Chronicles 1:24
Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,