Greek proper noun (a place) · G4966
Συχέμ
Sychemsoo-khem'
the son of Hamor; A city of Samaria
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Sychém
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4966is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4966
Sychem (i.e. Shekem), the name of a Canaanite and of a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Sychem.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Sychem is rendered "the son of Hamor; A city of Samaria". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "the son of Hamor".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 7:16Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
Acts 7:16Συχὲμ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: the son of Hamor, and A city of Samaria.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the son of HamorGen.33:19): Act.7:16 b | Tagged as
| WhereGenesis 33:19And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor… |
| A city of Samaria | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 7:16Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Συχέμ1
- Συχὲμ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF-L
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF-L
Acts
two uses
Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
- Συχὲμsuchemnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Shechem
- Συχέμsuchemnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Shechem
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.