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Σήμ

Sḗm · G4590 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Shem

    A person in the genealogy of Jesus

    Examples

    Luke 3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
שֵׁם Shêm · H8035 · name, authority
The Hebrew proper name for the same biblical patriarch, son of Noah; direct translation equivalent used in the Hebrew Scriptures for the same referent as Greek Σήμ in the New Testament genealogies.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Shem93.338
The proper name identifies a son of Noah, an ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy: “the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Shem” (Luke 3:36).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (in Josephus, Σημας), ὁ (שֵׁם, 'name,' 'sign,' 'celebrity'; but variously explained)),…
(in Josephus, Σημας), ὁ (שֵׁם, 'name,' 'sign,' 'celebrity'; but variously explained)), Shem, the eldest son of Noah: Lk 3:36.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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