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Lexicon :: Strong's H7927 - šᵊḵem

Aa
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 - And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6 - Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:8 - But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26 - And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4 - Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:7 - And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; the line goes on to the right hand, to the people of En-tappuah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7 - So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:1 - Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:25 - So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2 - Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - So his mother's family said all this about him in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem: and their hearts were turned to Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:6 - And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:7 - Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23 - And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the townsmen of Shechem; and the townsmen of Shechem were false to Abimelech;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26 - Then Gaal, the son of Ebed, came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their faith in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we are to be his servants? Is it not right for the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his captain to be servants to the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem? But why are we to be his servants?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - And he sent to Abimelech at Arumah, saying, See, Gaal, the son of Ebed, and his brothers have come to Shechem, and they are working up the town against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 - So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39 - So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46 - Then all the townsmen of the tower of Shechem, hearing of it, went into the inner room of the house of El-berith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47 - And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:1 - And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:25 - Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:1 - And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

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