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Strong's #4590 - Σήμ
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Shem meaning "name"
- the eldest son of Noah
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Σήμ (in Josephus, Σημας), ὁ (שֵׁם, 'name,' 'sign,' 'celebrity'; but variously explained)), Shem, the eldest son of Noah: Luke 3:36.
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Σήμ , ὁ ,
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(Heb. H8035), Shem: Luke 3:36.†
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";seed"; : P Cairo Zen I. 59097.10 (B.C. 257) χόρτου σπέρμα, P Par 63.110 (B.C. 165) (= P Petr III. p. 28) τὰ σπέρματα κατενεγκεῖν εἰς τοὺς ἀγρούς, ";to carry the seed to the fields,"; BGU II. 597.11 (A.D. 75) ἀλλαξέτω σε αὐτὸν (sc. σάκκον) Πασίων καλοῖς σπέρμασει (= σι), P Tebt II. 341.5 (A.D. 140–1) δεήσι ἐπισταλῆναι εἰς δάνε [ι ]α σπέρματα (l. σπερμάτων) κατασπ [ο ]ρᾶς τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δ ̄ (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος. . ., ";it will be necessary to send on account of loans of seed-corn for the sowing of the present 4th year of Antoninus Caesar . . ."; (Edd.), and P Oxy I. 117.11 (ii/iii A.D.) σπέρματα σικυδίων σπουδαῖα ἔπεμψα ὑμεῖν, ";I send you some good melon seeds"; (Edd.).
For σπέρμα in the singular in Galatians 3:16, see Milligan Documents, p. 105; and for the subst. σπερματισμός see P Lond 604.3 (A.D. 47) (= III. p. 71). We may note the proverb Kaibel 1038.8 εῖς ] πέλαγος σπέρμα βα [λεῖν, of vain and empty toil, and Musonius p. 8.1 πρὸς καλοκἀγαθίαν καὶ σπέρμα ἀρετῆς. On the use of ἄτεκνος in Luke 20:29 as compared with οὐκ ἀφῆκεν σπέρμα in the parallel Mark 12:20 (cf. Matthew 22:25), see H. Pernot La Langue des Évangiles (Paris, 1927), p. 17.
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