Definitions for Shem

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IPA: /ʃɛm/

Shem is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Shem (ehms).

Definitions for Shem

noun

  1. the eldest of the three sons of Noah. Gen. 10:21.

Examples for Shem

Ham was cursed to render service, forever, to Shem and Japheth.

Ham will be ever lower than Shem; Shem will be ever lower than Japheth.

First, that the name of Shem is put by mistake for that of Noah.

This shows that there is no blessing except by the God of Shem.

How, then, was it true that Ham was cursed and Shem was blessed?

God shall enlarge Japheth,
 And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;
 And Canaan shall be his servant.

Noah's—including his barren, adopted daughter Ila, who is betrothed to his son Shem—are.

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

It was not founded in "consent" of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

Ham will be lower than Shem, because he was sent to Central Africa.

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