Given Name SHEM

GENDER: Masculine

OTHER SCRIPTS: שֵׁם (Ancient Hebrew)

PRONOUNCED: SHEM (English) [details]

Meaning & History

Means "name" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Shem is one of Noah's three sons (along with Japheth and Ham) and the ancestor of the Semitic peoples.

OTHER LANGUAGES/CULTURES: Sem (Biblical Greek), Sem (Biblical Latin), Sem (Dutch)