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# שְׁכֶם

Biblical Hebrew

**Shechem** — used 45 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shechem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b6_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁכֶם²: n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b6_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc.49 et m.14 (Συχεμ; 𝔊L often Σίκιμα LagBN 57): district in N. Palestine (prob. shoulder (saddle?) of mount.);—מְקוֹם שׁ׳ Gn 12:6, שְׁכֶ֑מָה 37:14; = city (שְׁכֶם, שְׁכֶ֑מָה, Ho 6:9 שֶׁ֑כְמָה) Jos 24:1; עִיר שׁ׳ Gn 33:18; Ju 8:31 + 20 times Ju 9 (בַּעֲלֵי שׁ׳ v 2 + 12 times, ב׳ מִגְדַּל־שׁ׳ v 46, 47), Ho 6:9 + 21 times (עִיר שׁ׳ Gn 33:18); city of refuge Jos 20:7; 21:21; 1 Ch 6:52.—WMMAs. u. Eur. 394, cp. Egypt. Sa-ka-mà (cf. Jen ZA x (1895) 356); mod. Nablûs (from Rom. name Neapolis); v. BuhlG 200 f. GASmG 332 ff. 345 WilsonHast. DB shechem. n.pr.m. (on connexion with 1 cf. Ju 9:28), ‘son’ of Ḥamor, also Gn 33:19; 34:2 + 10 times 34, Jos 24:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shechem (21); of Shechem (17); to (7).

## In the verses

[Judges 9:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.39/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣צֵא גַ֔עַל לִפְנֵ֖י בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֑ם וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם בַּאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Gaal before the.citizens of.Shechem and he.fought against Abimelech

*JPS 1917:* And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

[Genesis 37:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.12/#tree)

וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אֶחָ֑יו לִרְע֛וֹת אֶׄתׄ־צֹ֥אןאֲבִיהֶ֖ם בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went brothers his to pasture (et) the.flock their.father their at Shechem

*JPS 1917:* And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b6_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b6_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).