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Shem (/ ʃ ɛ m /; Hebrew: שֵׁם Šēm; Arabic: سَام, romanized: Sām) [a] is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 [1] and 1 Chronicles 1:4). The children of Shem are Elam , Ashur , Arphaxad , Lud and Aram , in addition to unnamed daughters.
Based on Noah being at least 500 years old when he began to beget children [55] [non-primary source needed] and Noah's sons each having an age difference, [56] [57] [non-primary source needed] it is not uncommon to encounter chronologies that list Shem as being 98 years old when the flood began. Shem begat Arphaxad two years after the flood ...
In the Book of Genesis, they are always in the order "Shem, Ham, and Japheth" when all three are listed. [6] [7] Genesis 9:24 calls Ham the youngest, [7] and Genesis 10:21 refers ambiguously to Shem as "brother of Japheth the elder", which could mean that either is the eldest. [8]
Assuming the premise that Melchizedek was Shem, he would have been 465 years old at the time and Abram was 75 years of age. [65] Chazalic literature unanimously identify Melchizedek as Shem son of Noah (Targum Yonathan to Genesis chapter 14, Genesis Rabbah 46:7, Babylonian Talmud to Tractate Nedarim 32b).
The Genesis flood narrative tells how Noah and his three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), together with their wives, were saved from the Deluge to repopulate the Earth. Shem's descendants: Genesis chapter 10 verses 21–30 gives one list of descendants of Shem.
Shem Tob's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew is the oldest extant Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew. ... Especially old and correct is the Neofiti Ms, 17,2 of the ...
In episode 6 of season 1 of the television series The Sandman, Death comes for an old Jewish man, Harry who recites the Shema before dying. [ 44 ] In episode 10 of season 5 of the television series Snowfall , Avi Drexler sings the Shema after he has been shot in the stomach by a KGB officer, likely intended as his last words.
Eber (Hebrew: Ever) was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg, born when Eber was 34 years old, [1] and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah, a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464. [1] [2]