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Shechem (/ˈʃɛkəm/ SHEK-əm; Hebrew: שְׁכֶם, romanized: Šəḵem,
Biblical pronunciation: [ʃəˈxɛm];
Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠬࠥࠊࠝࠌ, romanized: Šăkēm), also spelled...
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child and only
daughter of Leah and Jacob. The
episode of her
violation by
Shechem, son of a
Canaanite or
Hivite prince, and the
subsequent vengeance of her...
- seduced) by a
Canaanite named Shechem.
Simeon and his
brother Levi took
violent revenge against the
inhabitants of
Shechem by
tricking them into cir****cising...
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folkloric motif in the
Middle Ages. The best-known
example is the
salting of
Shechem as
narrated in the
Biblical Book of
Judges 9:45. The
supposed salting of...
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ceremony at
Shechem (Joshua 24) Joshua's
final farewell address to the
people of
Israel in this
chapter was
during a
ceremony in
Shechem (verse 1), which...
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Abimelech (/əˈbɪməˌlɛk/; אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ’Ǎḇīmeleḵ) or
Abimelek was the king of
Shechem and the
tribal territory of Man****eh, and a son of
biblical judge Gideon...
- Book of Genesis, Levi and his brother, Simeon,
exterminate the city of
Shechem in
revenge for the rape of Dinah,
seizing the
wealth of the city and killing...
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immediate vicinity of the
Palestinian city of
Nablus and the
biblical city of
Shechem. It
forms the
southern side of the
valley in
which Nablus is situated,...
- Abimelech, son of Gideon, of the
Tribe of Man****eh, is
proclaimed king of
Shechem after the
death of his father. The name or
title Abimelech is
formed from...
- a
highway leading out to Nablus,
which in the
Hebrew Bible was
called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in
times past, to the
capital of Syria, Damascus;...
