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Lexicon :: Strong's H7927 - šᵊḵem

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שְׁכֶם
Transliteration
šᵊḵem
Pronunciation
shek-em'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as שְׁכֶם (H7926)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2386b

Strong’s Definitions

שְׁכֶם Shᵉkem, shek-em'; the same as H7926; ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine:—Shechem.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x

The KJV translates Strong's H7927 in the following manner: Shechem (61x), Sichem (1x), Strong's synonym for consent (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x
The KJV translates Strong's H7927 in the following manner: Shechem (61x), Sichem (1x), Strong's synonym for consent (1x).

  1. Shechem = "back" or "shoulder"

    proper masculine noun

    1. son of Hamor, the chieftain of the Hivites at Shechem at the time of Jacob's arrival

      proper locative noun

    2. a city in Manasseh; located in a valley between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, 34 miles (54 km) north of Jerusalem and 7 miles (10.5 km) south- east of Samaria

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שְׁכֶם Shᵉkem, shek-em'; the same as H7926; ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine:—Shechem.
STRONGS H7927: Abbreviations
† II. שְׁכֶם proper name, of a location49 and masculine14 (Συχεμ; LXX of Lucian (Lag.) often Σίκιμα Lag BN 57):
1. district in Northern Palestine (probably shoulder (saddle ?) of mountain); — מְקוֺם שׁ׳ Genesis 12:6, שְׁכֶ֑מָךְ Genesis 37:14; = city (שְׁכֶ֑מָה שְֶׁכֶם, Hosea 6:9 שֶׁ֑כְמָךְ) Joshua 24:1; עִיר שׁ׳ Genesis 33:18 + 20 times Judges 9 (בַּעֲלֵי שׁ׳ Genesis 33:2 + 12 times, מִגְדַּלשֿׁ׳ ב׳ Genesis 33:46; Genesis 33:47), Hosea 6:9 + 21 times (עִיר שׁ׳ Genesis 33:18); city of refuge Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:21; 1 Chronicles 6:52. — WMMAs.u.Eur.394, compare Egyptian Sa-ka-ma; (compare JenZA x (1895) 356); modern Nablûs (from Roman name Neapolis); see BuhlG 200 f. GASmG 332 ff. 345 WilsonsHast. DB SHECHEM.
2. proper name, masculine (on connection with 1 compare Judges 9:28), 'son' of Hamor, also Genesis 33:19; Genesis 34:2 + 10 times 34, Joshua 24:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:6; 33:2; 33:18; 33:18; 33:19; 34:2; 37:14

Joshua

20:7; 21:21; 24:1; 24:3

Judges

9; 9:28

1 Chronicles

6:52

Hosea

6:9; 6:9

H7927

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Strong's Number H7927 matches the Hebrew שְׁכֶם (šᵊḵem),
which occurs 63 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:6–2Ch 10:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Avram passed through the land to the place of Shekhem, to the oak of Moreh. The Kana`ani was then in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - Ya`akov came in shalom to the city of Shekhem, which is in the land of Kana`an, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and encamped before the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shekhem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - Shekhem the son of Hamor the Hivvi, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - Shekhem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6 - Hamor the father of Shekhem went out to Ya`akov to talk with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:8 - Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shekhem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Shekhem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - The sons of Ya`akov answered Shekhem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - Their words pleased Hamor, and Shekhem, Hamor's son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - Hamor and Shekhem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shekhem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26 - They killed Hamor and Shekhem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shekhem's house, and went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4 - They gave to Ya`akov all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Ya`akov hid them under the oak which was by Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shekhem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hevron, and he came to Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:7 - The border of Menashsheh was from Asher to Mikhmetat, which is before Shekhem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of `Entappu'ach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7 - They set apart Kedesh in the Galil in the hill-country of Naftali, and Shekhem in the hill-country of Efrayim, and Kiryat-Arba (the same is Hevron) in the hill-country of Yehudah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - They gave them Shekhem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Efrayim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:1 - Yehoshua gathered all the tribes of Yisra'el to Shekhem, and called for the Zakenim of Yisra'el, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:25 - So Yehoshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - The bones of Yosef, which the children of Yisra'el brought up out of Mitzrayim, buried they in Shekhem, in the parcel of ground which Ya`akov bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shekhem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Yosef.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - His concubine who was in Shekhem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Avimelekh the son of Yerubba`al went to Shekhem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2 - Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shekhem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Yerubba`al, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shekhem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Avimelekh; for they said, He is our brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:6 - All the men of Shekhem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Avimelekh king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:7 - When they told it to Yotam, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shekhem, that God may listen to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Avimelekh, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shekhem, because he is your brother);

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - but if not, let fire come out from Avimelekh, and devour the men of Shekhem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shekhem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23 - God sent an evil spirit between Avimelekh and the men of Shekhem; and the men of Shekhem dealt treacherously with Avimelekh:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - that the violence done to the seventy sons of Yerubba`al might come, and that their blood might be laid on Avimelekh their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shekhem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - The men of Shekhem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26 - Ga`al the son of `Eved came with his brothers, and went over to Shekhem; and the men of Shekhem put their trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - Ga`al the son of `Eved said, Who is Avimelekh, and who is Shekhem, that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Yerubba`al? and Zevul his officer? serve you the men of Hamor the father of Shekhem: but why should we serve him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - He sent messengers to Avimelekh craftily, saying, Behold, Ga`al the son of `Eved and his brothers are come to Shekhem; and, behold, they constrain the city to take part against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 - Avimelekh rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shekhem in four companies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39 - Ga`al went out before the men of Shekhem, and fought with Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Avimelekh lived at Arumah: and Zevul drove out Ga`al and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46 - When all the men of the tower of Shekhem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the Beit-El-Berit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47 - It was told Avimelekh that all the men of the tower of Shekhem were gathered together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Avimelekh, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shekhem died also, about a thousand men and women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - and all the wickedness of the men of Shekhem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Yotam the son of Yerubba`al.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - They said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beit-El, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Beit-El to Shekhem, and on the south of Levonah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:1 - Rechav`am went to Shekhem: for all Yisra'el were come to Shekhem to make him king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:25 - Then Yarov`am built Shekhem in the hill-country of Efrayim, and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penu'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shekhem in the hill-country of Efrayim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their possessions and habitations were Beit-El and the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shekhem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:1 - Rechav`am went to Shekhem; for all Yisra'el were come to Shekhem to make him king.

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