noun · feminine
suchem
Strong’sG4966
Shechem
stem suchem-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
Συχέμ indecl. (Heb. שְׁכֶם),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4966 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoo-khem'
Sychem (i.e. Shekem), the name of a Canaanite and of a place in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesSychem.
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
Shechem;
__1. the son of Hamor (
__2. A city of Samaria (AV, Sychem; in LXX also sometimes Σίκιμα, -ων, as in FlJ):
(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.
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 | suchem | suchem |
| object accusative | suchem1×Συχὲμ | suchem |
| direct address vocative | suchem | suchem |
| of, belonging to genitive | suchem | suchem |
| to, for dative | suchem1×Συχέμ | suchem |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
suchem“Shechem”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 7:16kai metatithila eis Suchem kai tithila en te mnēme he …Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that …
suchem“Shechem”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 7:16… argurieu para toiu huioiu Hemmōr en Suchem.… from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in …