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Eldest son of Noe. He lived to be 600 years old, gave his name to the Semitic race, and was a direct ancestor of Abraham (Genesis 10 and 11).
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Sem
(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. 1 Chronicles 1:4, 17 sq.; Luke 3:36). 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 (Genesis 10:21-31), the Sacred Writer resumes (xi, 10 sqq.) the genealogy of the descendants of Arphaxad, the direct ancestor of Abraham, David, and Christ.
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HUMMELAUER, Comment. in Genesim (Paris. 1895), loc. cit., and HAGEN, Lex. Bibl. (Paris, 1905-11), both in Cursus Scripturae Sacrae; STRACK, Genesis (Munich, 1894), loc. cit. in Kurzgef. Kommentar z. d. hl. Schriften Alt. u. N. Test.; HOBERG, Die Genesis (Freiburg, 1908), loc. cit.; MAAS, Christ in Type and Prophecy, I (New York), 212 sq.
THOMAS PLASSMANN. Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
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(), the Graecized form (Luk 3:36) of the name of SHEM SEE SHEM (q.v.), the son of the patriarch Noah.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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sem (, Sem): the King James Version from the Greek form of Shem; thus the Revised Version (British and American) (Luk 3:36).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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See SHEM.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
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Sem. Shem, the patriarch. Luk 3:36. See Shem.