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H8034שֵׁםshem

namePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 113
  2. 43
  3. 11
  4. 49
  5. 36
  6. 12
  7. 19
  8. 14
  9. 33
  10. 34
  11. 46
  12. 23
  13. 55
  14. 45
  15. 4
  16. 7
  17. 8
  18. 7
  19. 109
  20. 7
  21. 3
  22. 1
  23. 54
  24. 55
  25. 1
  26. 28
  27. 6
  28. 5
  29. 2
  30. 7
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 4
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 5
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 7
  39. 10

Renderings

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864 occurrences in 771 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 1 Samuel 25:3

    Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

    וְשֵׁ֤ם (שֵׁ֤ם) Shem “[the] name of”וְשֵׁ֥ם (שֵׁ֥ם) Shem “[the] name of”

  2. 1 Samuel 25:5

    And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men: 'Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

    בִשְׁמִ֖י (שְׁמִ֖) sh.M “name”

  3. 1 Samuel 25:9

    And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

    בְּשֵׁ֣ם (שֵׁ֣ם) Shem “[the] name of”

  4. 1 Samuel 25:25

    Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this base fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and churlishness is with him; but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

    כִשְׁמוֹ֙ (שְׁמ) sh.M “name”שְׁמ֔וֹ (שְׁמ֔) she.M “name”

  5. 2 Samuel 3:7

    Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner: 'Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?'

    וּשְׁמָ֖הּ (שְׁמָ֖) she.Ma “name”

  6. 2 Samuel 4:2

    And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin; for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin;

    שֵׁם֩ shem “[the] name of”וְשֵׁ֧ם (שֵׁ֧ם) Shem “[the] name of”

  7. 2 Samuel 4:4

    Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled; and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became

    וּשְׁמ֥וֹ (שְׁמ֥) she.M “name”

  8. 2 Samuel 5:14

    And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon;

    שְׁמ֛וֹת she.Mot “[are] [the] names of”

  9. 2 Samuel 5:20

    And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said: 'The LORD hath broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters.' Therefore the name of that place was called Baal-perazim.

    שֵֽׁם־ shem- “[the] name of”

  10. 2 Samuel 6:2

    And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him, from Baale-judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whereupon is called the Name, even the name of the LORD of hosts that sitteth upon the cherubim.

    שֵׁ֗ם Shem “[the] name”שֵׁ֣ם shem “[the] name of”

  11. 2 Samuel 6:18

    And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.

    בְּשֵׁ֖ם (שֵׁ֖ם) Shem “[the] name of”

  12. 2 Samuel 7:9

    And I have been with thee whithersoever thou didst go, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth.

    שֵׁ֣ם shem “a name”כְּשֵׁ֥ם (שֵׁ֥ם) Shem “[the] name of”

  13. 2 Samuel 7:13

    He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

    לִשְׁמִ֑י (שְׁמִ֑) sh.M “name”

  14. 2 Samuel 7:23

    And who is like Thy people, like Israel, a nation one in the earth, whom God went to redeem unto Himself for a people, and to make Him a name, and to do for Thy land great things and tremendous, even for you, in driving out from before Thy people, whom T

    שֵׁ֗ם Shem “a name”

  15. 2 Samuel 7:26

    And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of Thy servant David shall be established before Thee.

    שִׁמְךָ֤ (שִׁמְ) shim. “name”

  16. 2 Samuel 8:13

    And David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Arameans in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

    שֵׁ֔ם Shem “a name”

  17. 2 Samuel 9:2

    Now there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him unto David; and the king said unto him: 'Art thou Ziba?' And he said: 'Thy servant is he.'

    וּשְׁמ֣וֹ (שְׁמ֣) she.M “name”

  18. 2 Samuel 9:12

    Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.

    וּשְׁמ֣וֹ (שְׁמ֣) she.M “name”

  19. 2 Samuel 12:24

    And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him;

    שְׁמוֹ֙ (שְׁמ) she.M “name”

  20. 2 Samuel 12:25

    and He sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, for the LORD'S sake.

    שְׁמ֖וֹ (שְׁמ֖) she.M “name”

  21. 2 Samuel 12:28

    Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.'

    שְׁמִ֖י (שְׁמִ֖) she.M “name”

  22. 2 Samuel 13:1

    And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

    וּשְׁמָ֣הּ (שְׁמָ֣) she.Ma “name”

  23. 2 Samuel 13:3

    But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

    וּשְׁמוֹ֙ (שְׁמ) she.M “name”

  24. 2 Samuel 14:7

    And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they said: Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and

    שֵׁ֥ם shem “a name”

  25. 2 Samuel 14:27

    And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of a fair countenance.

    וּשְׁמָ֣הּ (שְׁמָ֣) she.Ma “name”