שֵׁם
shem
1. name
a. name
b. reputation, fame, glory
c. the Name (as designation of God)
d. memorial, monument
Aramaic equivalent: shum (שֻׁם "name" H8036)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 771 verses
- 1 Chronicles 16:2 בְּשֵׁ֥ם
When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 16:8 בִשְׁמ֔וֹ
“Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
- 1 Chronicles 16:10 בְּשֵׁ֣ם
Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
- 1 Chronicles 16:29 שְׁמ֑וֹ
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;
- 1 Chronicles 16:35 לְשֵׁ֣ם
Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’
- 1 Chronicles 16:41 בְּשֵׁמ֑וֹת
With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, for “His loving devotion endures forever.”
- 1 Chronicles 17:8 שֵׁ֔םכְּשֵׁ֥ם
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
- 1 Chronicles 17:21 שֵׁ֚ם
And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 17:24 שִׁמְךָ֤
so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.
- 1 Chronicles 21:19 בְּשֵׁ֥ם
So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 לְשֵׁ֤ם
And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 22:7 לְשֵׁ֖ם
“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God,
- 1 Chronicles 22:8 לִשְׁמִ֔י
but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 שְׁמ֔וֹ
But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 לִשְׁמִ֔י
He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
- 1 Chronicles 22:19 לְשֵׁם־
Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
- 1 Chronicles 23:13 בִּשְׁמ֖וֹ
The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron and his descendants were set apart forever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister before Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.
- 1 Chronicles 23:24 שֵׁמוֹת֙
These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 לִשְׁמִ֑י
but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’
- 1 Chronicles 29:13 לְשֵׁ֥ם
Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.
- 1 Chronicles 29:16 לְשֵׁ֣ם
O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.
- 2 Chronicles 2:1 לְשֵׁ֣ם
Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 לְשֵׁ֣ם׀
Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- 2 Chronicles 3:17 שֵׁם־וְשֵׁ֥ם
Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
- 2 Chronicles 6:5 שְׁמִ֖י
‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:6 שְׁמִ֖י
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 2 Chronicles 6:7 לְשֵׁ֥ם
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:8 לִשְׁמִ֑י
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
- 2 Chronicles 6:9 לִשְׁמִֽי׃
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 לְשֵׁ֥ם
Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:20 שִׁמְךָ֖
May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
- 2 Chronicles 6:24 שְׁמֶ֔ךָ
When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
- 2 Chronicles 6:26 שְׁמֶ֔ךָ
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
- 2 Chronicles 6:32 שִׁמְךָ֤
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
- 2 Chronicles 6:33 שְׁמֶ֗ךָשִׁמְךָ֣
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 לִשְׁמֶֽךָ׃
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 לִשְׁמֶֽךָ׃
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 שְׁמִ֣י
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 שְׁמִ֥י
For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 לִשְׁמִ֔י
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 שְׁמ֥וֹוְשֵׁ֣ם
Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
- 2 Chronicles 13:2 וְשֵׁ֣ם
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 14:11 וּבְשִׁמְךָ֣
Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”
- 2 Chronicles 18:15 בְּשֵׁ֥ם
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
- 2 Chronicles 20:8 לְשִׁמְךָ֥
They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 20:9 שִׁמְךָ֖
‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’
- 2 Chronicles 20:26 שֵׁ֨ם
On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, where they blessed the LORD. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Beracah to this day.
- 2 Chronicles 20:31 וְשֵׁ֣ם
So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
- 2 Chronicles 22:2 וְשֵׁ֣ם
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
- 2 Chronicles 24:1 וְשֵׁ֣ם
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.