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.

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