See also:

• SHEM (Hebrew for " name, renown, posterity ")

SHEM (See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew for " name, renown, posterity ")  , in the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, the eldest of the three sons of See also:

• NOAH (ni, rest; Septuagint, New Testament, Philo, Josephus, Na*, N&i os, Nweos: Vulg. Noe)

NOAH, whose superiority over See also:

• CANAAN, CANAANITES

Canaan is reflected in the tradition that Noah pronounced a curse upon the latter (Gen. ix . 20-27) . In the genealogies (x . 21 sqq.), See also:

• SHEM (Hebrew for " name, renown, posterity ")

Shem See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers among his descendants See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian, Arabian, Aramaean and See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew populations, whence the ethnic Semitic (strictly speaking, Shemitic) has been coined as a convenient See also:

• TERM

term for these peoples . It is not altogether scientific, since the Lydians (Lud) and Elamites are included among Shem's " sons," apparently on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of their See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical position or because of their indebtedness to Assyrian culture . On the traditions of Shem, see E . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer, Israeliten u . Nachbarstamme (See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, Igoe), pp . 219 sqq .