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# שֵׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8035

**Sem** — used 17 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

Sem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8035/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁם²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8035/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. first son of Noah;—Gn 5:32; 6:10; 7:13; 10:1, 22, 31; 11:10(×2), 11 (all P), 9:18, 23, 26, 27; 10:21 (all J), 1 Ch 1:4, 17, 24; Σημ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shem (11); of Shem (6).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.24/#tree)

שֵׁ֥ם ׀ אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד שָֽׁלַח׃

*Word for word:* Shem Arphaxad Shelah

*JPS 1917:* Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

[1 Chronicles 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/#tree)

נֹ֥חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֥ם וָיָֽפֶת׃ס

*Word for word:* Noah Shem Ham and Japheth

*JPS 1917:* Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8035.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8035/): 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).