Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'shem' occurs 24 times in the standard works.

9 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'shem' in the standard works and contain 37.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 11:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 9:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 10:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 17 104 121
Gen. 14 7 21
Num. 0 3 3
Josh. 0 11 11
Judg. 0 2 2
1 Sam. 0 9 9
1 Kgs. 0 4 4
2 Kgs. 0 2 2
1 Chr. 3 27 30
2 Chr. 0 12 12
Ezra 0 6 6
Neh. 0 14 14
Jer. 0 7 7
NT 0 0 0
BM 3 7 10
DC 1 0 1
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 24 112 136

Gen. 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen. 6:10
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen. 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;

Gen. 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.

Gen. 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.

Gen. 9:26
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Gen. 9:27
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Gen. 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.

Gen. 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.

Gen. 10:22
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

Gen. 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

Gen. 11:10
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Gen. 11:11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

1 Chr. 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 Chr. 1:17
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

1 Chr. 1:24
Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,