Shem

Shem is a man living at the time of the Patriarchs. He is named in 17 verses of the Bible, first in Genesis 5:32.

Family

Verses

Genesis

• Genesis 5:32
  And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• Genesis 6:10
  And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• Genesis 7:13
  In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
• Genesis 9:18
  And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
• Genesis 9:23
  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
• Genesis 9:26
  And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
• Genesis 9:27
  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
• Genesis 10:1
  Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
• Genesis 10:21
  Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
• Genesis 10:22
  The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
• Genesis 10:31
  These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
• Genesis 11:10
  These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
• Genesis 11:11
  And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 1:4
  Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• 1 Chronicles 1:17
  The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
• 1 Chronicles 1:24
  Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,

Luke

• Luke 3:36
  Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.