Shechem = "back" or "shoulder" a city in Manasseh; located in a valley between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, 34 miles (54 km) north of Jerusalem and 7 miles (10.5 km) south- east of Samaria Also named: Suchem (Συχέμ "Shechem" G4966)
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H7927 — שְׁכֶם
she.khem · Shechem · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 12:6 · שְׁכֶ֔םAbram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.Genesis 33:18 · שְׁכֶ֗םJacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.Genesis 33:19 · שְׁכֶ֑םHe bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.Genesis 34:2 · שְׁכֶ֧םShechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.Genesis 34:4 · שְׁכֶ֔םShechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”Genesis 34:6 · שְׁכֶ֖םHamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.Genesis 34:8 · שְׁכֶ֣םHamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.Genesis 34:11 · שְׁכֶם֙Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.Genesis 34:13 · שְׁכֶ֨םThe sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,Genesis 34:18 · שְׁכֶ֥םTheir words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.Genesis 34:20 · וּשְׁכֶ֥םHamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,Genesis 34:24 · שְׁכֶ֣םAll 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 · שְׁכֶ֣ם · שְׁכֶ֖םThey killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.Genesis 35:4 · שְׁכֶֽם׃They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.Genesis 37:12 · בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.Genesis 37:13 · בִּשְׁכֶ֔םIsrael said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”Genesis 37:14 · שְׁכֶֽמָה׃He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.Joshua 17:7 · שְׁכֶ֑םThe border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.Joshua 20:7 · שְׁכֶ֖םThey set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.Joshua 21:21 · שְׁכֶ֥םThey gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,Joshua 24:1 · שְׁכֶ֑מָהJoshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.Joshua 24:25 · בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.Joshua 24:32 · בִשְׁכֶם֒ · שְׁכֶ֖םThey buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.Judges 8:31 · בִּשְׁכֶ֔םHis concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.Judges 9:1 · שְׁכֶ֔מָהAbimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,Judges 9:2 · שְׁכֶם֮“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”Judges 9:3 · שְׁכֶ֔םHis mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”Judges 9:6 · שְׁכֶם֙ · בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.Judges 9:7 · שְׁכֶ֔םWhen they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.Judges 9:18 · שְׁכֶ֔םand you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);Judges 9:20 · שְׁכֶ֖ם · שְׁכֶם֙but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”Judges 9:23 · שְׁכֶ֑ם · שְׁכֶ֖םGod sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:Judges 9:24 · שְׁכֶ֔םthat the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.Judges 9:25 · שְׁכֶ֜םThe men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.Judges 9:26 · בִּשְׁכֶ֑ם · שְׁכֶֽם׃Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.Judges 9:28 · שְׁכֶם֙ · שְׁכֶ֔םGaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?Judges 9:31 · שְׁכֶ֔מָהHe sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.Judges 9:34 · שְׁכֶ֔םAbimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.Judges 9:39 · שְׁכֶ֑םGaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.Judges 9:41 · בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.Judges 9:46 · שְׁכֶ֑םWhen all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.Judges 9:47 · שְׁכֶֽם׃It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.Judges 9:49 · שְׁכֶ֛םAll the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.Judges 9:57 · שְׁכֶ֔םand all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.Judges 21:19 · שְׁכֶ֑מָהThey said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”1 Kings 12:1 · שְׁכֶ֑ם · שְׁכֶ֛םRehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.1 Kings 12:25 · שְׁכֶ֛םThen Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.1 Chronicles 6:67 · שְׁכֶ֥םThey gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,1 Chronicles 7:28 · וּשְׁכֶ֣םTheir possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;2 Chronicles 10:1 · שְׁכֶ֑מָה · שְׁכֶ֛םRehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.Psalm 60:6 · שְׁכֶ֑םGod has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.Psalm 108:7 · שְׁכֶ֑םGod has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.Jeremiah 41:5 · מִשְּׁכֶ֞םthat there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.Hosea 6:9 · שֶׁ֑כְמָהAs gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.