Word study

Shechem

2 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “shechem”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “Shechem” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • שְׁכֶם Shekemshouldertranslated this way 59 times of its 60 uses · Strong’s H7927Noun  ·  Translated: Shechem 53, Shechem's 4, Meanwhile 1, near shechem 1

    Genesis 12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

    Joshua 17:7 Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

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  • שֶׁכֶם ShekemShekemtranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H7928Noun  ·  Translated: Shechem 3

    Numbers 26:31 the Asrielite clan from Asriel, the Shechemite clan from Shechem,

    Joshua 17:2 So this allotment was for the rest of the descendants of Manasseh — the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • Συχέμ SychémShechemtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4966Noun  ·  Translated: Shechem 2

    Acts 7:16 Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.