Sem (Shem)

Pictured in El's Holy Injiyl as a Black man with beard and mustash, nappy hair brushed to the back; high cheek bones, stricking dark slightly slanted eyes, medium sized ears and lips tilted slightly downward and long wide nose. He is noted as the son of Utnafishtim (Noah) and Naama. (p. xii)

El's Holy Injiyl, (the book of Revelation) translated by Dr. Malachi Z. York

Shem
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Shem (שם "Name; renown; prosperity", Tiberian Hebrew Šēm, Standard Hebrew Šem; Greek Σημ, Sēm) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son. He is mentioned in Genesis 5:32, 6:10; 7:13; 9:18,23,26-27; 10; 11:10; also in 1 Chronicles 1:4. Jesus is descended from Shem in an unbroken line. The Jews derive their origin from Shem and are sometimes referred to as Semitic. The Children of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Aram, Arpachshad and Lud, in addition to daughters.

Terms like "Shemites" and "sons" of an eponymous "father" in general, are not supported outside of religious studies by modern scholarship. In the Ancient Near East (and in the Aegean), the earliest attempts at arriving at an ethnology that would explain the contemporary sense that there were relative similarities and differences among neighboring or distant tribes, was expressed in terms of genealogy: this approach is reflected in terms like "Semite" and "Hamite". Both "Semite" and "Hamite" are rarely used now, and are sometimes perceived as offensive. However, while the vague term Hamitic dropped out of mainstream academic use in the sixties, Semitic remains an indispensable technical term for, in particular, the Semitic languages, and is commonly used in the fixed phrase anti-Semitic.

Sem is also the name of a commune in the Ariège département, in France

SEM is the abbreviation for scanning electron microscope

(Hebrew "name", "fame", "renown"; in Septuagint, Sem; A.V., Shem.)

Son of Noe; according to Gen., x, 21, the eldest. His birth and generations are recorded in Gen., v, 31; xi, 10 sqq. (cf. I Par., i, 4, 17 sq.; Luke, iii, 36). He lived to be six hundred years of age. An incident, narrated Gen., ix, 18 sqq., discloses his filial reverence. His reward was a blessing of great import (cf. Ecclus., xlix, 19). Noe's prophetic words (according to Massor. Text), "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Sem" (for the glory of a nation is its God), designate, in a special manner, Yahweh as the God of Sem and, consequently, Sem as the bearer of the Messianic promises. Having enumerated the Semitic nations, whose habitat extended over the central portions of the then known world (Gen., x, 21-31), the Sacred Writer resumes (xi, 10 sqq.) the genealogy of the descendants of Arphaxad, the direct ancestor of Abraham, David, and Christ.

Shem, the firstborn son of Noah, escaped the destruction of the earth by flood and joined his family in the ark (Genesis 2:20-27). After the flood, Shem covers his father's nakedness when he becomes intoxicated from his vineyard he plants. Shem had five sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram. Some rabbinic sources note that Shem is also King Melchizedek. The term Semite is linguistically related to the name Shem.

Sources: Bridger, David. Ed. The New Jewish Encyclopedia, NY: Behrman House, 1976; Navigating the Bible II

In the Old Testament of the Bible, Shem is the oldest of the three sons of Noah (Gen. 5:32) and the ancestor of all Semitic peoples. With his brothers, Ham and Japheth, Shem accompanied Noah on the ark. When Noah lay drunk and naked in his tent, Ham derided him to his brothers which brought Noah's curse on Ham's son, Canaan but Shem and Japheth tactfully covered him, walking backward with the garment so as not to behold their father's nakedness. This act earned them special blessings (9:18-27). Shem lived 600 years. According to scripture, the three brothers were the progenitors of all the peoples on Earth (9:19). Whereas the term Semite derives from Shem, his descendants listed in Gen. 10:1-31 include non-Semitic peoples as well, such as the Elamites.

Reference: 2002 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

<sup>Old Testament Genealogy

The Bible traces Eber to Shem, the son of Noah; from him were also the Assyrians and the Arameans. All these peoples spoke languages closely related, which we are in the habit of calling Semitic. The speech of the Canaanites was nearest to that we know as Hebrew; yet the Bible groups these people, together with the Egyptians, among the descendants of Shem's brother Ham. Cush begat Nimrod and his kingdom was Babel. Out of that land went forth Asshur. Southern Arabia was settled in part by Cush and his sons, descendants of Ham. All the descendents of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth populate the world as the three main divisions of mankind, Mongloid (Oriental), Negroid (black) and Caucasian (white), respectively, and of their mixing.

According to Hebrew tradition, Melchizadek, king and founder of Ur Salem (Jerusalem), was Noah's son Shem.

Lydia (Lud)(Ezekiel 30:5), is a province in the west of Asia Minor, which derived its name from the fourth son of Shem (Gen. 10:22). It was bounded on the east by the greater Phrygia, and on the west by Ionia and the AEgean Sea. That area is now modern Turkey. The Chubs were the name of a people in alliance with Egypt in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. The word is found only in Ezek. 30:5. They were probably a people of Northern Africa, or of the lands near Egypt in the south.

The sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. Madai is "middle land", the third son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2), the name by which the Medes are known on the Assyrian monuments. Javan was the fourth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2), whose descendants settled in Greece, i.e., Ionia, which bears the name of Javan in Hebrew. Alexander the Great is called the "king of Javan" (rendered "Grecia," in the King James Bible, Dan. 8:21; 10:20; comp. 11:2; Zech. 9:13). This word Javan was universally used by the nations of the East as the generic name of the Greek race. Meshech is the sixth son of Japheth, located near Tubal at the north east corner of Asia minor in Iberia, and supposed by many to have been the father of the Muscovites. Meshech traded with Tyre in the persons of men, and in vessels of brass. Magog-son of Japheth & grandson of Noah. Josephus noted that the Greeks called them Scythians and also settled in Russia. Meshech-brother to Magog, from Heb. mashak - to draw out; descendants: a barbarous people inhabiting the Moshian Mts. between Iberia, Armenia and Colchis.

Rosh, as seen in early Greek writings, is a name which was then used for all the nations of the north. Meshech and Tubal, now believed to be Phrygia and Cappadocia were located at that time in the vicinity of Magog, clearly the area of Russia. Thus if Rosh is Russia, Magog would be the land of Russia. The suggestion has been made that Meshech and Tubal constitute the old names for the former western and eastern capitals of Russia, Moscow and Tobolsk.

Tubal, a son of Japheth was supposed to have been the originator of the Tybareni, who occupied the NE part of Asia Minor being southern Russia between the Black and Caspian seas. They were a warlike people, and brought slaves and copper vessels to the market of Tyre. The Tiberani is said to have been a Scythian tribe of the eastern Asia minor, later, no great distance from the Black Sea.

Russia is identified in Ezekiel 38 as the Prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. Magog, Meshech and Tubal were the sons of Japheth from whom came the Russians and Muscovites. Ezekiel 38 and 39 tell us that the Gog alliance is supernaturally defeated by God's intervention. Magog, according to both Jerome and Josephus, is a general designation for the many Scythian tribes of the north. Ezekiel - "Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshceh and Tubal. And I will turn you back, and bring hooks into your jaws. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya, with them. Gomer and all his bands, the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands."

Gomer was the eldest son of Japheth, most likely representing Germany, and the rest of the nations listed in Ezekiel 38 are Muslim. Gomer was the father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. He is believed to have settled the northern shores of the black sea, Eastern Europe, the British Isles and northern Russia; Cimmerians, and to the Crimea and Asia Minor. Togarmah was supposed to have given his name to the region of Asia afterwards called Armenia. It was celebrated for a nation in trading of horses and mules at the fairs of Tyre (Ezek. 27:14; and the men of Togarmah, like the modern Armenians, were an industrious, peaceable, and trafficking people. The sons of Ashkenaz, according to old Roman maps, place them around the area of Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany to the banks of the Danube. Riphath means a crusher, Gomer's second son (Gen. 10:3), supposed to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians. The Paphlagonians were mentioned in the Illiad which suggest that they may be Grecian but other sources place the Riphathians in the uttermost northern areas.

The sons of Esau were the Edomites. The land of Edom was mountainous and called the mountain of Seir, the rough hills on the east side of the Arabah. It extended from the head of the Gulf of Akabah, the Elanitic gulf, to the foot of the Dead Sea (1 Kings 9:26), and contained, among other cities, the rock-hewn Sela, generally known by the Greek name Petra. The Christians retreated to Petra during the destruction of Jerusalem. The Edomites were conquered by David and eventually intermarried and disappeared.

Noah's son Ham, (burnt, swarthy, Black) bore the brunt of his curse on his son Canaan, a prophetic malediction. Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, that is, the ancestor of the Canaanites, southern Arabians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, and the Africans in general.

Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and Libya (also literally called Cush and Put) mentioned in Ezekiel 38:5. Put was the third son of Ham and settled in North Africa (Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco). The Cushites were Black people who first settled on the Arabian Peninsula and then migrated south. The three nations to invade Israel are Persia (Iran/Iraq), Ethiopia and Libya, with Gomer and all his bands. Rahab was a nickname for Egypt. Tarshish is Spain.
[Genesis, I Chronicles, 202, 380, Ezekiel, Easton's, 100, 386, 402, 415]</sup>

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Sons of Noah
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According to a literal interpretation of the Old Testament, all of humanity is descended from Noah through his three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Genesis 10 offers versions of the traditional genealogies of these sons of Noah and their relationship to those various peoples and places that were familiar to the biblical authors.

Similarly, in Greek myth, Hellen, the son of Deucalion, the Greek Noah, and eponym of the Hellenes had three sons, named Dorus and Æolus, the ancestors of the Dorians and Æolians, and Xuthus, whose sons Achæus and Ion, were the progenitors of the Achæans and Ionians.

These genealogies, like the similar ones expressed in Greek myth and legend, should not be dismissed out of hand. For the times in which they were memorized and recited, they were presenting a structure for primitive efforts towards creating an ethnology that would express the degrees of alienness or relatedness the authors of such genealogies sensed among those neighboring peoples of whom they were aware. In the genealogies of the "Sons of Noah" sometimes a grain of historical fact can be discerned, as there may be a kernel of history buried in legend. Generally the most useful truths to be uncovered in these invented lists are in what they reveal of the cultural point-of-view of the legend-makers themselves.

Interesting comparisons may be made with the Welsh folk genealogies that trace their king-lines back to Troy.