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Shem שֵׁם
Shem, one of Noah's three sons and the ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
Also called Sem.
Family
Where Shem appears
Genesis (13), 1 Chronicles (3), Luke (1)
Key verses
- Genesis 5:32 first mention — And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 7:13 — In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, 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, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:23 — And Shem 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; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 9:27 — God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 10:1 — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Genesis 10:21 — Unto Shem 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; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
- 1 Chronicles 1:4 — Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- 1 Chronicles 1:17 — The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
- Luke 3:36 — Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.