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Word Study · Strong's H8034 · Hebrew

שֵׁם

shem

shame

Strong's 1890 spelling: shêm

an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character

Rendered in the KJV as

[phrase] base, (in-) fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.

  • 864
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 174
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 174

  • שְׁמ֖וֹ48
  • שֵׁ֣ם21
  • וְשֵׁ֥ם19
  • שֵׁ֥ם16
  • שֵׁם־16
  • שִׁמְךָ֣14
  • שֵֽׁם־12
  • שֵׁ֤ם10
  • שְׁמֶֽךָ׃9
  • בְּשֵׁ֣ם8
  • שְׁמ֔וֹ8
  • שֵׁמֹ֗ת8

and 162 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 72

  • [the] name of79
  • name his79
  • name your45
  • and [the] name of43
  • and name his19
  • in [the] name of18
  • names18
  • name its17
  • [are] [the] names of13
  • a name12
  • name my12
  • and name her9

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 32

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular95
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)79
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular53
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)43
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)38
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)26
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular19
  • noun · feminine plural18
  • noun · masculine singular16
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular16
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular13
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular12
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 95
  • HNcmsc · 79
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 53
  • HC/Ncmsc · 43
  • HR/Ncmsc · 38
  • HNcfpc · 26
  • HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 19
  • HNcfpa · 18
  • HNcmsa · 16
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 16
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 13
  • HNcmsc/Sp3fs · 12

The first 500 of 864, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis113 occurrences
Exodus43 occurrences
Leviticus11 occurrences
Numbers49 occurrences
Deuteronomy36 occurrences
Joshua12 occurrences
Judges19 occurrences
Ruth14 occurrences
1 Samuel33 occurrences
2 Samuel34 occurrences
1 Kings27 occurrences
Psalms109 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled שֵׁם

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).