Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H7927
שְׁכֶם
Shekemshek-em'
Shechem
63 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 H7927is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7927
Shekem, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Shechem.
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 "Shechem". It stands 63 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Twenty-seven of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 12:6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Genesis 12:6שְׁכֶ֔ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-seven of the word's sixty-three uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Shechem45
- Shechem towards7
- at Shechem5
- in Shechem3
- and Shechem2
- from Shechem1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁכֶם | shekem | shoulder | Uses21 |
| 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.
The words it stands beside
All 63, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 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
- שְׁכֶ֔ם9
- שְׁכֶ֑ם8
- שְׁכֶ֖ם6
- בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃4
- שְׁכֶם֙4
- שְׁכֶ֛ם4
- שְׁכֶ֣ם3
- שְׁכֶ֥ם3
- שְׁכֶֽם׃3
- שְׁכֶ֑מָה3
- בִּשְׁכֶ֔ם2
- שְׁכֶ֔מָה2
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)34HNpl
- proper noun (a name)11HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)9HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)7HNpl/Sd
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Genesis
eighteen uses
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
- שְׁכֶ֗םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
- שְׁכֶ֧םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
- שְׁכֶ֖םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- שְׁכֶ֣םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
- שְׁכֶם֙shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- שְׁכֶ֨םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
- שְׁכֶ֥םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
- וּשְׁכֶ֥םushekhemconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shechem
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
- שְׁכֶ֣םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
- שְׁכֶ֣םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
- שְׁכֶ֖םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- שְׁכֶֽם׃shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
- בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃bishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shechem
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
- בִּשְׁכֶ֔םbishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shechem
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- שְׁכֶֽמָה׃shekhemahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
Joshua
seven uses
Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- שְׁכֶ֖םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,
- שְׁכֶ֥םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
- שְׁכֶ֑מָהshekhemahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
- בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃bishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shechem
And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
- בִשְׁכֶם֒vishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shechem
- שְׁכֶ֖םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Judges
twenty-seven uses
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
- בִּשְׁכֶ֔םbishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shechem
Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
- שְׁכֶ֔מָהshekhemahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
- שְׁכֶם֮shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
And when his mother’s brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
- שְׁכֶם֙shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
- בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃bishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shechem
When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”
- שְׁכֶ֖םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
- שְׁכֶם֙shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
God sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully,
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
- שְׁכֶ֖םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
- שְׁכֶ֜םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Meanwhile, Gaal son of Ebed came with his brothers and crossed into Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem put their confidence in him.
- בִּשְׁכֶ֑םbishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shechem
- שְׁכֶֽם׃shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?
- שְׁכֶם֙shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So he covertly sent messengers to Abimelech to say, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.
- שְׁכֶ֔מָהshekhemahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought against Abimelech,
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Abimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.
- בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃bishkhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shechem
On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
And when Abimelech was told that all the leaders in the tower of Shechem were gathered there,
- שְׁכֶֽם׃shekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
- שְׁכֶ֛םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
- שְׁכֶ֔םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
- שְׁכֶ֑מָהshekhemahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
1 Kings
three uses
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
- שְׁכֶ֛םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
- שְׁכֶ֛םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
1 Chronicles
two uses
They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
- שְׁכֶ֥םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
- וּשְׁכֶ֣םushekhemconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shechem
2 Chronicles
two uses
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
- שְׁכֶ֑מָהshekhemahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
- שְׁכֶ֛םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Psalms
two uses
God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
- שְׁכֶ֑םshekhemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shechem
Jeremiah
one use
eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.
- מִשְּׁכֶ֞םmishekhempreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Shechem
Hosea
one use
Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
- שֶׁ֑כְמָהshekhmahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shechem towards
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
