שְׁכֶם
shechem · Shechem
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7927 · appears 63 times in the Bible
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shechem (שְׁכֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Shechem”.
A city in the center of Canaan, between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim.
How to say it
she·chem
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.
The place
Shechem
Today: Tell Balata ruins, near Nablus, West Bank
A city in the hills of central Israel, between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Jerusalem.
Abram came there when he entered Canaan, and God promised him the land (Gen 12:6-7). Joshua gathered all Israel there to renew the covenant (Josh 24:1).
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Where it appears
- Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.
- Genesis 33:18
Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped in front of the city.
- Genesis 33:19
He bought the piece of the field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitah.
- Genesis 34:2
Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the chief of the land, saw her, and he took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
- Genesis 34:4
Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- Genesis 34:6
Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
- Genesis 34:8
Hamor spoke with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul longs for your daughter; please give her to him as a wife.
- Genesis 34:11
Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
- Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit and spoke, because he had made Dinah their sister unclean.
- Genesis 34:18
Their words seemed good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 34:24
All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
- Genesis 34:26
Hamor and Shechem his son they killed with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out.
- Genesis 35:4
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.
- Genesis 37:12
His brothers went to pasture their father’s flock at Shechem.
- Genesis 37:13
Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
- Genesis 37:14
He said to him, “Go, please, see the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Joshua 17:7
And the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem; and the border went to the south, to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
- Joshua 20:7
So they consecrated Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- Joshua 21:21
And they gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasturelands,
- Joshua 24:1
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders of Israel, its heads, its judges, and its supervisors; and they presented themselves before Elohim.
- Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set for them a statute and an ordinance at Shechem.
- Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel had brought up from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of the field that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.
- Judges 8:31
His concubine who was in Shechem she also bore him a son, and he gave him the name Abimelech.
- Judges 9:1
Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to the brothers of his mother, and spoke to them and to all the family of the house of the father of his mother, saying,
- Judges 9:2
“Speak, please, in the ears of all the lords of Shechem: ‘Which is better for you, that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or that one man rule over you?’ And remember that I am your bone and your flesh.”
- Judges 9:3
His mother’s brothers spoke about him in the ears of all the lords of Shechem all these words, and their heart inclined toward Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”
- Judges 9:6
All the lords of Shechem gathered, and all the house of Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the standing stone that is in Shechem.
- Judges 9:7
When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, lifted up his voice, called out, and said to them, “Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that Elohim may listen to you.
- Judges 9:18
but you have risen up against my father’s house today and killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and made Abimelech king, the son of his slave woman, over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother —
- Judges 9:20
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the lords of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the lords of Shechem and from the house of Millo and consume Abimelech.”
- Judges 9:23
Elohim sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the lords of Shechem, and the lords of Shechem betrayed Abimelech,
- Judges 9:24
so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- Judges 9:25
The lords of Shechem set against him men in ambush on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed everyone who passed by them on the road. And it was told to Abimelech.
- Judges 9:26
Gaal son of Ebed came with his brothers, and they passed into Shechem, and the lords of Shechem trusted in him.
- Judges 9:28
Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem! And why should we serve him?
- Judges 9:31
He sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem, and look, they are stirring up the city against you.
- Judges 9:34
Abimelech rose by night, with all the people who were with him, and they lay in ambush against Shechem in four companies.
- Judges 9:39
Gaal went out before the lords of Shechem and fought against Abimelech.
- Judges 9:41
Abimelech stayed at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, so that they could not live in Shechem.
And 23 more times.