Shem

S0335900 (shĕm) In the Bible, the eldest son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Ham.

Shem

(ʃɛm) n (Bible) Old Testament the eldest of Noah's three sons (Genesis 10:21). Douay spelling: Sem

Shem

(ʃɛm)

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

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Noun

Shem - (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible

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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 HammadiNag Hammadi
, a town in Egypt near the ancient town of Chenoboskion, where, in 1945, a large cache of gnostic texts in the Coptic language was discovered. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, dating from the 4th cent. A.D.
..... Click the link for more information. codices. The Treatise of Shem, known from a 15th-century Syriac manuscript, is an astrological almanac.

Shem

in Biblical mythology, one of the three sons of Noah; progenitor of the Elamites, Assyrians, and other peoples known as Semites (“sons of Shem”).

Shem

Old Testament the eldest of Noah's three sons (Genesis 10:21)

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noun (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah

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