shechem · shoulder

What it means

shechem (שְׁכֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shoulder”.

The upper part of the back, where burdens are carried.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The part of the body by the neck where a load is carried.
2. An extra piece of land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• shoulder ×14
• shoulders ×4
• back ×1
• portion ×1
• turn their backs ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×5
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 9:23

  And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it on the shoulders of both of them, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and also the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Genesis 24:15

  It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.

• Genesis 24:45

  Before I had finished speaking in my heart, look, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

• Genesis 48:22

  And I have given you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, and the land, that it was pleasant; so he bent his shoulder to bear burdens and became subject to forced labor.

• Exodus 12:34

  So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

• Joshua 4:5

  And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of YHWH your Elohim into the middle of the Jordan, and lift up, each of you, one stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,

• Judges 9:48

  Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took the axes in his hand, cut down a branch of the trees, lifted it and put it on his shoulder; and he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry, do as I have done.”

• 1 Samuel 9:2

  He had a son whose name was Saul, a young man and handsome; there was no man among the sons of Israel more handsome than he; from his shoulders upward he was taller than all the people.

• 1 Samuel 10:9

  And it happened, as he turned his back to go from Samuel, that Elohim changed for him another heart; and all these signs came about on that day.

• 1 Samuel 10:23

  And they ran and took him from there, and he stood among the people, and he was taller than all the people from his shoulders upward.

• Job 31:36

  Surely on my shoulder I would carry it; I would bind it on myself as crowns.

• Psalms 21:12

  For you will make them turn their backs; with your cords you will aim at their faces.

• Psalms 81:6

  I removed his shoulder from the burden; his palms were freed from the basket.

• Isaiah 9:4

  For the yoke of its burden and the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian.

• Isaiah 9:6

  For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us, and the dominion will be on his shoulder; and his name will be called Wonder of a Counselor, Valiant El, Perpetual Father, Prince of Peace.

• Isaiah 10:27

  And it will happen on that day that his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness.

• Isaiah 14:25

  to break Assyria in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke will depart from them, and his burden will depart from his shoulder.”

• Isaiah 22:22

  And I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder; and he will open, and no one will shut; and he will shut, and no one will open.

• Zephaniah 3:9

  For then I will change the peoples to a pure language, so that they may call all of them on the name of YHWH, to serve him with one shoulder.