sēm

Strong’sG4590

Shem

stem sēm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

Σήμ, ὁ indecl. (Heb. שֵׁם),

Shem: Lk 3:36.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4590 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsame

Sem (i.e. Shem), a patriarch

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King JamesSem.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Σήμ, ὁ indecl. (Heb. שֵׁם),
Shem: Luk.3:36.†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

Shem1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	sēm	sēm
object accusative	sēm	sēm
direct address vocative	sēm	sēm
of, belonging to genitive	sēm1×Σὴμ	sēm
to, for dative	sēm	sēm

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

sēmstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

sēmem — σημεῖον, a sign, miracle, indication

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

sēm“Shem”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 3:36tou Kainam tou Arfaxad tou Sēm tou Nōe tou Lamech… son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son …