שֵׁם
Shêm · shame
Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity)
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H8034 (שֵׁם); name;
Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Sem, Shem.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׁם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shem6 · 35%
- of shem6 · 35%
- and shem3 · 18%
- were shem1 · 6%
- unto shem1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.