Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7926
שְׁכֶם
shekemshek-em'
shoulder
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉkem
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7926is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7926
the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of ahill
The King James renders it: back, [idiom] consent, portion, shoulder.
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
shekem is rendered "shoulder". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9:23שְׁכֶ֣ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- shoulder his7
- a shoulder3
- shoulder her3
- from shoulder his2
- shoulder its2
- shoulder my1
- shoulder of1
- shoulder their1
- shoulder your1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁכַח | shekach | to find | Uses18 |
| שְׁכָבָה | shekabah | semen | Uses9 |
| שְׁכֹבֶת | shekobeth | copulation | Uses4 |
| שְׁכוֹל | shekol | bereavement | Uses3 |
| שְׁכַן | shekan | to dwell | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- שִׁכְמ֑וֹ4
- שְׁכֶ֥ם2
- שִׁכְמוֹ֙2
- שִׁכְמ֔וֹ2
- מִשִּׁכְמ֣וֹ1
- מִשִּׁכְמ֖וֹ1
- שְׁכֶ֣ם1
- שֶׁ֑כֶם1
- שִׁכְמָ֛הּ1
- שִׁכְמָ֔הּ1
- שִׁכְמָֽהּ׃1
- שִׁכְמ֖וֹ1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular9HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
Genesis
six uses
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
- שְׁכֶ֣םshekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: shoulder of
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- שִׁכְמָ֛הּshikhmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: shoulder her
Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
- שִׁכְמָֽהּ׃shikhmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: shoulder her
And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
- שִׁכְמָ֔הּshikhmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: shoulder her
And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
- שְׁכֶ֥םshekhemnoun · masculine singulartagged: a shoulder
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
- שִׁכְמוֹ֙shikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
Exodus
one use
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
- שִׁכְמָֽם׃shikhmamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: shoulder their
Joshua
one use
and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,
- שִׁכְמ֔וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
Judges
one use
he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
- שִׁכְמ֑וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
1 Samuel
three uses
And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
- מִשִּׁכְמ֣וֹmishikhmopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from shoulder his
As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.
- שִׁכְמוֹ֙shikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.
- מִשִּׁכְמ֖וֹmishikhmopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from shoulder his
Job
one use
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.
- שִׁ֭כְמִיshikhminoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: shoulder my
Psalms
two uses
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
- שֶׁ֑כֶםshekhemnoun · masculine singulartagged: a shoulder
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
- שִׁכְמ֑וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
Isaiah
five uses
For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
- שִׁכְמ֔וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder its
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- שִׁכְמ֑וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
- שִׁכְמֶ֔ךָshikhmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder your
I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
- שִׁכְמ֖וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder its
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
- שִׁכְמ֑וֹshikhmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: shoulder his
Zephaniah
one use
For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
- שְׁכֶ֥םshekhemnoun · masculine singulartagged: a shoulder
The letters
Gematria 360· 920 mispar gadol
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
