Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8035
שֵׁם
Shemshame
Shem
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Shêm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8035is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8035
Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity)
The King James renders it: Sem, Shem.
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
Shem is rendered "Shem". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 5:32שֵׁ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's seventeen uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Shem15
- and Shem1
- and to Shem1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֵׁם | shem | name | Uses864 |
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- שֵׁ֖ם6
- שֵׁ֔ם3
- שֵׁ֑ם2
- וּלְשֵׁ֥ם1
- וְשֵׁם־1
- שֵׁ֨ם1
- שֵׁ֚ם1
- שֵׁ֗ם1
- שֵׁ֥ם׀1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)15HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
Genesis
fourteen uses
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- שֵׁ֖םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- שֵׁ֖םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- וְשֵׁם־veshem-conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shem
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- שֵׁ֖םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
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.
- שֵׁ֨םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
- שֵׁ֑םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
- שֵׁ֑םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- שֵׁ֖םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
- וּלְשֵׁ֥םulshemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Shem
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
- שֵׁ֖םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
- שֵׁ֔םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
- שֵׁ֔םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
- שֵׁ֚םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
- שֵׁ֗םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
1 Chronicles
three uses
The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- שֵׁ֖םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
- שֵׁ֔םshemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,
- שֵׁ֥ם׀shemproper noun (a name)tagged: Shem
The letters
Gematria 340· 900 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.