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SHEM (Hebrew for " name, renown, posterity ")

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 834 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHEM (Hebrew for " name, renown, posterity ") , in the Bible, the eldest of the three sons of NOAH, whose superiority over
Canaan
  is reflected in the tradition that Noah pronounced a curse upon the latter (Gen. ix. 20-27). In the genealogies (x. 21 sqq.),
Shem
  numbers among his descendants Assyrian, Arabian, Aramaean and Hebrew populations, whence the ethnic Semitic (strictly speaking, Shemitic) has been coined as a convenient
term
  for these peoples. It is not altogether scientific, since the Lydians (Lud) and Elamites are included among
Shem
 's " sons," apparently on
account
  of their geographical position or because of their indebtedness to Assyrian culture. On the traditions of Shem, see E.
Meyer
 , Israeliten u. Nachbarstamme (
Halle
 , Igoe), pp. 219 sqq.


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