7926. shekem
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shekem: shoulder
Original Word: שְׁכֶם
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: shekem
Phonetic Spelling: (shek-em')
Short Definition: shoulder

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
shoulder
NASB Translation
back (2), portion (1), shoulder (12), shoulders (7), socket (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. שְׁכֶם noun masculineZephaniah 3:9 shoulder; — absolute ׳שׁ Genesis 48:2 +, שְׁכֶ֑ם Genesis 33:19 +, שֶׁ֑כֶם Psalm 21:13 (whence original *šakm inferred Ol§ 147 a near the end Sta§ 199 a; but ֶ֯ derived from ִ֯ before כ, BaNB 104 Kö ii.l.67, 506); construct שְׁכֶם Genesis 9:23; suffix שִׁכְמוֺ Genesis 49:15 +, שִׁכְמָה (for שִׁכְמָהּ Ges§ 91e) Job 31:22, etc.; —

1 shoulder (sometimes including back of neck; כתף = shoulder-blade):

a. as bearing burdens, לִסְבֹּל ׳וַיֵּט שׁ Genesis 49:15 (poem in J; Issachar under figure of ass), compare Genesis 21:14 (E), Genesis 24:15,45; Exodus 12:34, also Genesis 9:23 (all J), Joshua 4:5 (E), Judges 9:48; Isaiah 10:27 ("" צַוָּאר), Isaiah 14:25 (both figurative), Psalm 81:7, so, metaphorical, of responsibility of rule Isaiah 9:5; Isaiah 22:22= (symbolized by key), of accusation as (easy) burden Job 31:36; figurative also אֶחָד ׳לְעָבְדוֺ שׁ Zephaniah 3:9 to serve him (with) one shoulder (as one man), of. Syriac .

b. in statement of Saul's height, מִשִּׁכְמוֺ וָמַ֫עְלָה גָּכֹהַּ מִכָּלהָֿעָם1Samuel 9:2, compare 1 Samuel 10:23 and (with play on proper name, of a location שְׁכֶם) אַהַד עַלאַֿחֶיךָ ׳נָתַתִּי לְךָ שׁ Genesis 48:22 (E; compare Dr).

2 in General back: כְּהַפְנֹתוֺ שִׁכְמוֺ לָלֶכֶת מֵעִם 1 Samuel 10:9; so ׳תְּשִׁיתֵמוֺ שׁ Psalm 21:13, i.e. make them turn (in flight; compare וְאוֺיְבַי נָתַתָּה לִי עֹרֶף, Psalm 18:41); as beaten ׳מַטֵּה שׁ Isaiah 9:3 ("" שֵׁבֶט הַנֹּנֵשׂ בּוֺ); more anatomical תִמּוֺל ׳כְּתֵפִי מִשּׁ Job 31:22 let my shoulder blade fall from its back. — Hosea 6:9 see II. שְׁכֶם below

שִׁכְמָה see foregoing.



Strong's
place of burdens

From shakam; the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of a hill -- back, X consent, portion, shoulder.

see HEBREW shakam

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