Occurrences
Shêm occurs 17 times in 16 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (13), 1 Chronicles (3)
- Genesis 5:32 — And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem (שֵׁ֖ם), Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:10 — And Noah begat three sons, Shem (שֵׁ֖ם), Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 7:13 — In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem (וְשֵׁם), and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
- Genesis 9:18 — And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem (שֵׁ֖ם), and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:23 — And Shem (שֵׁ֨ם) and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
- Genesis 9:26 — And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem (שֵׁ֑ם); and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 9:27 — God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem (שֵׁ֑ם); and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 10:1 — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem (שֵׁ֖ם), Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Genesis 10:21 — Unto Shem (וּלְשֵׁ֥ם) also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
- Genesis 10:22 — The children of Shem (שֵׁ֖ם); Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
- Genesis 10:31 — These are the sons of Shem (שֵׁ֔ם), after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
- Genesis 11:10 — These are the generations of Shem (שֵׁ֔ם): Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
- Genesis 11:10 — These are the generations of Shem: Shem (שֵׁ֚ם) was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
- Genesis 11:11 — And Shem (שֵׁ֗ם) lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 1:4 — Noah, Shem (שֵׁ֖ם), Ham, and Japheth.
- 1 Chronicles 1:17 — The sons of Shem (שֵׁ֔ם); Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
- 1 Chronicles 1:24 — Shem (שֵׁ֥ם), Arphaxad, Shelah,