שְׁכֶם
Used: 45 times · Key: lemma:שְׁכֶם · BDB: שְׁכֶם²
Glosses
Shechem (21); of.Shechem (17); to (7)
Meaning (OSHB)
Shechem tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.pr.loc.49 et m.14 (Συχεμ; 𝔊L often Σίκιμα LagBN 57): district in N. Palestine (prob. shoulder (saddle?) of mount.);—מְקוֹם שׁ׳ Gn 12:6, שְׁכֶ֑מָה 37:14; = city (שְׁכֶם, שְׁכֶ֑מָה, Ho 6:9 שֶׁ֑כְמָה) Jos 24:1; עִיר שׁ׳ Gn 33:18; Ju 8:31 + 20 times Ju 9 (בַּעֲלֵי שׁ׳ v 2 + 12 times, ב׳ מִגְדַּל־שׁ׳ v 46, 47), Ho 6:9 + 21 times (עִיר שׁ׳ Gn 33:18); city of refuge Jos 20:7; 21:21; 1 Ch 6:52.—WMMAs. u. Eur. 394, cp. Egypt. Sa-ka-mà (cf. Jen ZA x (1895) 356); mod. Nablûs (from Rom. name Neapolis); v. BuhlG 200 f. GASmG 332 ff. 345 WilsonHast. DB shechem. n.pr.m. (on connexion with 1 cf. Ju 9:28), ‘son’ of Ḥamor, also Gn 33:19; 34:2 + 10 times 34, Jos 24:32.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «שְׁכֶם» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
וַיֵּ֣צֵא גַ֔עַל לִפְנֵ֖י בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֑ם וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם בַּאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃
Word for word: and he.went.out Gaal before the.citizens of.Shechem and he.fought against Abimelech
JPS 1917: And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אֶחָ֑יו לִרְע֛וֹת אֶׄתׄ־צֹ֥אןאֲבִיהֶ֖ם בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃
Word for word: and they.went brothers his to pasture (et) the.flock their.father their at Shechem
JPS 1917: And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
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