Look up: shem

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   Shem
   [n] - (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah
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   Shem
   noun (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah
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   Shem
   `Shem` was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son. Genesis 10:21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity in each to have yielded different translations. The verse is translated in the KJV as `Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of `Japheth the elder`, even to him were ch...
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   Shem
   (from the article `Noah`) ...first, the passage attributes the beginnings of agriculture, and in particular the cultivation of the vine, to Noah; second, it attempts to ...
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   Shem
   Shem is a Hebrew boy name. The meaning of the name is `renown. ` Where is it used? The name Shem is mainly used In the bible. The name Shem doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Shem seems to be unique!
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   Shem
   Shem, in the Bible, eldest son of Noah; presented as the ancestor of the Semites, particularly of the Hebrews and Arabs. An apocalypse called the Paraphrase of Shem was found among the Nag Hammadi codices. The Treatise of Shem, known from a 15th-century Syriac manuscript, is an astrological almanac.
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