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Shem, Ham and Japheth by James Tissot c. 1900. Shem is on the far right with stereotypically Asian features. 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 ...
The list of 70 names introduces for the first time several well-known ethnonyms and toponyms important to biblical geography, [4] such as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from which 18th-century German scholars at the Göttingen school of history derived the race terminology Semites, Hamites, and Japhetites.
The following is a family tree for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are given names. For example, one English translation of the Bible states in Genesis 11:13 that "After the birth of Shelah,
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." [7] According to this argument, similar abuse must have happened each time that the Bible uses the same language. The Talmud ...
Elam (/ ˈ iː l ə m /; [1] עֵילָם ‘Elam) in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:22, Ezra 4:9) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah.The name is also used (as in Akkadian) for the ancient country of Elam in what is now southern Iran, whose people the Hebrews believed to be the offspring of Elam, [2] son of Shem (Genesis 10:22).
He is the twelfth name of the Genesis genealogy that traces Abraham ' s ancestry from Adam to Terah (cf. Luke 3:36–38). Beginning with Adam, nine Antediluvian names are given that predate Noah and the Flood, and nine postdiluvian, beginning with Noah's eldest son Shem and ending with Terah. [2]
Following the Genesis flood narrative, a large multi-branched genealogy presents the descendants of the sons of Noah. ( Genesis 10:9 ) The 70 names given represent biblical geography, consisting of local ethnonyms and toponyms presented in the form of eponymous ancestors (names in origin-myth genealogies that are to be understood as ancestors ...
Lud (Hebrew: לוּד Lūḏ) was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 (the "Table of Nations"). The descendants of Lud are usually, following Josephus, connected with various Anatolian peoples, particularly Lydia (Assyrian Luddu) and their predecessors, the Luwians; cf. Herodotus' assertion (Histories i.