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# שֶׁכֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7928

**Shechem** — used 3 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/1513/7928/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫כֶם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7928/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Manasseh (Συχεμ): Nu 26:31; 1 Ch 7:19; בְּנֵי־שׁ׳ Jos 17:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 (2); of Shechem (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.31/#tree)

וְאַ֨שְׂרִיאֵ֔ל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הָֽאַשְׂרִֽאֵלִ֑י וְשֶׁ֕כֶם מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשִּׁכְמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Asriel the.clan of the.Asrielite\[s\] and Shechem the.clan of the.Shechemite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

[1 Chronicles 7:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.19/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י שְׁמִידָ֑ע אַחְיָ֣ן וָשֶׁ֔כֶם וְלִקְחִ֖י וַאֲנִיעָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.were the.sons of.Shemida Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7928.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7928/): 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).