Occurrences
Shᵉkem occurs 22 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (6), Exodus (1), Joshua (1), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (3), Job (1), Psalms (2), Isaiah (5), Hosea (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 9:23 — And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders (שְׁכֶ֣ם), and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
- Genesis 21:14 — And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder (שִׁכְמָ֛הּ), and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
- Genesis 24:15 — And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder (שִׁכְמָֽהּ).
- Genesis 24:45 — And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder (שִׁכְמָ֔הּ); and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
- Genesis 48:22 — Moreover I have given to thee one portion (שְׁכֶ֥ם) above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
- Genesis 49:15 — And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder (שִׁכְמוֹ֙) to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
- Exodus 12:34 — And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders (שִׁכְמָֽם).
- Joshua 4:5 — And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder (שִׁכְמ֔וֹ), according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
- Judges 9:48 — And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder (שִׁכְמ֑וֹ), and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
- 1 Samuel 9:2 — And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders (מִשִּׁכְמ֣וֹ) and upward he was higher than any of the people.
- 1 Samuel 10:9 — And it was so, that when he had turned his back (שִׁכְמוֹ֙) to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
- 1 Samuel 10:23 — And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders (מִשִּׁכְמ֖וֹ) and upward.
- Job 31:36 — Surely I would take it upon my shoulder (שִׁ֭כְמִי), and bind it as a crown to me.
- Psalms 21:12 — Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back (שֶׁ֑כֶם), when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
- Psalms 81:6 — I removed his shoulder (שִׁכְמ֑וֹ) from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
- Isaiah 9:4 — For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder (שִׁכְמ֔וֹ), the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
- Isaiah 9:6 — For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder (שִׁכְמ֑וֹ): and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 10:27 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder (שִׁכְמֶ֔ךָ), and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
- Isaiah 14:25 — That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders (שִׁכְמ֖וֹ).
- Isaiah 22:22 — And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder (שִׁכְמ֑וֹ); so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
- Hosea 6:9 — And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
- Zephaniah 3:9 — For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent (שְׁכֶ֥ם).