shem
IPA: ʃɪm
Root Word: Shem
noun
- (biblical) The oldest son of Noah, brother to Ham and Japheth.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
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Examples of "shem" in Sentences
- Japheth dwelling in Shem's tent and all that.
- Shem is held to be founder of the Semitic peoples.
- Shem, at least, agrees that the story isn't notable.
- Shem replied that they had a difficult time in the ark.
- Shem for example seems a linguistic not racial referent.
- Shem provide the reference that Coqsportif is asking for.
- Aram son of Shem is also revered as a prophet in Mandaeism.
- The shem is a scroll or slip of paper containing the tetragrammaton.
- Sephardim recite the whole of the Shema aloud, except the Baruch Shem.
- Sephardim recite the whole of the Shema aloud, except the 'Baruch Shem'.
- I can finally thank the esteemed state of New York for the proper son of shem, Al Franken. —
- He honestly believed that Jesus was the physical manifestation of the force refered to as “shem hammephorash” by the ancient jews.
- It is now Rabbi Schochet who must explain his objections lest he be guilty of character assassination without justification, a grave sin in Judaism known as motzi shem ra.
- Its purpose is to explain where the amazing heroes of the past, the “men of renown” anshei shem, came from: they had no known ancestry from the line of Enoch and Methuselah and so forth, but they must have come from somewhere.
- This doubling brings to mind the myth of the Golem from Jewish folklore, a anthropomorphic creature created from mud, by a pious person and animated either by writing one of the names of God on its forehead, or placing a slip of paper in its mouth sometimes known as a shem, or more significantly for the purpose of this article, writing the word emet (אמת, "truth" or reality in the Hebrew language) on its forehead.