Shem

2454 V.C. - 1844 V.C.    Has 26 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Shem   [1]
  Birth	2454 V.C.  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1844 V.C.  [1]
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. Japheth,   b. 2494 V.C.   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Adâtanêsês + 2. Shem,   b. 2454 V.C.   d. 1844 V.C. ▻ Sêdêqêtêlebâb + 3. Ham   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Egyptus
  Person ID	I114638	Geneagraphie | Voorouders HW
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Noah,   b. 2944 V.C.   d. 1994 V.C.
  Mother	Emzârâ   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F46064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sêdêqêtêlebâb   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Aram   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Lud   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. King Arphaxad of Arrapachtis,   b. 2341 V.C.   d. 1903 V.C. + 4. Elam   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Bedwig   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Asshur   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F46063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

• Notes

  (renown) He received a special blessing from his father, Noah, "that he would be the Progenitor of the Messiah". Also referred to as "The Great High Priest". Shem was the Father of Shemitic(Semitic) Race: Arabs, Hebrews,Phoenicians, Syrians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. He was given Aisia within the Euphrates to the Indian Ocean, by his father Noah. This is the traditional descent of the British Monarch's from Biblical sources as recorded in the Anglo Saxon chronicles, which show Bedwig as being Sam's son. The Icelandic Prose Edda shows a much more credible history which shows descent from the Kings of Troy. I therefore go with the Prose Edda, but both are oral histories. SHEM [name, renown, fame]. From these "all the earth's population spread abroad" following the global food." -Gen. 6:10; 9:18,19. Although the three sons are consistently listed as Shem, Ham, and Japheth "there is some uncertainty as to their relative positions" according to age. The fact that Shem is mentioned first is of itself no definite indication that Shem was Noah's firstborn since Shem's own firstborn son (Arpachshad) is listed third in the genealogical records. (Gen. 10:22; I Chron. 1:17) In the original Hebrew, Genesis 10:21 allows for more than one possible translation some translations referring to Shem as the brother of Japheth the oldest for elders" (AV, NW ), while others call him the elder [for older] brother of Japheth. (AS, Do AT, RS, JB, Ro) The ancient versions likewise differ the Septuagint, Symmachus and the Targum of Onkelos presenting Japheth as the older, while the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Vulgate and the Syriac versions place Shem as the older brother of Japheth. The weight of evidence found in the rest of the Bible record, however, indicates that Shem likely was Noah's second son, younger than Japheth. The record shows that Noah began to father sons after reaching 500 years of age (2470 B.CE.) the Flood occurring in his 600th year (Gen. 5:32; 7:6). Already married at the time of the Food (Gen 6:18), Shem is stated to have fathered his first son, Arpachshad, two years after the Flood (2368 B.C.E.) when he, Shem, was 100 years old (Gen 11:10). This would mean that Shem was born when Noah was 502 years of age (2458 B.C.E.) and, since Ham appears to be referred to as the "youngest son" (Gen 9:24), Japheth would logically be the first son born to Noah, when he was 500 years of age. Following the birth of Arpachshad, other sons (and also daughters) were born to Shem, including Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram (Gen. 10:22, 11:11). After Aram, the parallel account at 1 Chronicles 1:17 also lists "Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash," but at Genesis 10:23 these are shown to be sons of Aram. Biblical and other historical evidence indicates that Shem was thus the progenitor of the Semitic peoples: The Elamites, the Assyrians, the early Chaldeans, the Hebrews, the Aramaeans (or Syrians), various Arabian tribes, and perhaps the Lydians of Asia Minor. This would mean that the population descended from Shem was concentrated principally in the south-western corner of the Asiatic continent, extending throughout most of the "Fertile Crescent" and occupying a considerable portion of the Arabian Peninsula. -See the articles under the names of the individual sons of Shem. When Shem and his brother, Japheth, covered over their father's nakedness, at the time of Noah's being overcome by wine, they showed not only filial respect, but also respect for the one whom God had used to effect their preservation during the Flood (Gen. 9:20-23). Thereafter, in the blessing Noah pronounced, indication was given that the line of Shem would be particularly favored by God and would contribute to the sanctification of God's name, Noah referring to Jehovah as "Shem's God" (Gen. 9:26). It was from Shem, through his son Arpachshad, that Abraham descended, and to him was given the promise concerning the seed in whom all the families of the earth would receive a blessing (1 Chron. 1:24-27; Gen 12:1-3; 22:15-18). Noah's prediction concerning Canaan's becoming "a slave" to Shem was fulfilled by the Semitic subjugation of the Canaanites as a result of the Israelite conquest of the land of Canaan. Gen. 9:26. Shem lived 500 Years after fathering Arpachshad dying at the age of 600 years (Gen 11:10,11). His death thus occurred some thirteen years after the death of Sarah (1881 B.C.E.) and ten years after the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah (1878 B.C.E.) in view of this, it has been suggested that Shem may have been Melchizedek (meaning "king of righteousness"), the king-priest to whom Abraham paid tithes (Gen 14:18-20). The Bible record does not say this, however, and the apostle Paul shows that no available genealogical record or other vital statistics were left concerning Melchizedek, so that he became an apt type of Christ Jesus, who is King-Priest perpetually. Heb. 7:1-3. - - - - - The correct version to the above question, and in answer to any arising issue, is that Shem's name was always placed before Japheth, by Noah, due to Shem's faith in and worship of Jehovah, and due to Shem's good conduct and respectfulness towards his father Noah. A very impressed and appreciative Noah, who himself was God worshiping, placed Shem's name first, a place of honor. As to Canaan 'becoming a slave' of Shem, finds more truth, though, as bible scholars learn more about and observe the history and evolution of mankind in its totality. We see Hamites, as a result of their departure, being enslaved by a more economically and religiously advanced Western and Japhetic world in Shem's tent (The religious worship that originally stemmed from Shem).

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Ernst-Friedrich Kraentzler, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, (published by author 1978 , , Repository: J.H. Garner), Chart 1842, p 401 (Reliability: 0).