Συχέμ
Sychem
Thayer's lists 3 entries for ‘Sychem’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G4966 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Συχεμ — transliterated Sychém — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Sychem.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. A true hapax — its single appearance is Acts 7:16. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4966 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sychem 2×
- American Standard Version: Shechem 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shechem 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shechem 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4966 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4966 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4966 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4966 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Shechem = "shoulder (literal early rising): diligence"
- a city in Ephraim
- the son of Emmor
Word origin
Derived from שכם (Shᵉkem) (H7927) — Shechem.
Of hebrew origin [ H7927 ]; Sychem (that is Shekem ) the name of a Canaanite and of a place in Palestine : - Sychem.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sychem). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
See SHECHEM.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
the Greek form of the word Shechem. It occurs in (Acts 7:16) only. [Shechem]
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Συχεμ appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 37 verses in 7 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 37
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:6 συχεμ
- Numbers 26:35 συχεμ
- Joshua 17:2 συχεμ
- Judges 8:31 συχεμ
- 1 Chronicles 6:52 συχεμ
- 2 Chronicles 10:1 συχεμ
- Jeremiah 48:5 συχεμ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4966) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:6 συχεμ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
- Genesis 33:19 συχεμ He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
- Genesis 34:2 συχεμ Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
- Genesis 34:4 συχεμ Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
- Genesis 34:6 συχεμ Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
- Genesis 34:8 συχεμ Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
- Genesis 34:11 συχεμ Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
- Genesis 34:13 συχεμ The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
- Genesis 34:18 συχεμ Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son.
- Genesis 34:20 συχεμ Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 34:24 συχεμ All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
- Genesis 34:26 συχεμ They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
- Genesis 37:12 συχεμ His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
- Genesis 37:13 συχεμ Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
- Genesis 37:14 συχεμ He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Numbers 26:35 συχεμ These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
- Joshua 17:2 συχεμ So [the lot] was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.
- Joshua 20:4 συχεμ He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
- Joshua 21:21 συχεμ They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,
- Judges 8:31 συχεμ His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
- Judges 9:1 συχεμ Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
- Judges 9:2 συχεμ Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
- Judges 9:3 συχεμ His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
- Judges 9:28 συχεμ Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve you the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?
- Judges 9:31 συχεμ He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and, behold, they constrain the city [to take part] against you.
- Judges 9:34 συχεμ Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- Judges 9:39 συχεμ Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
- Judges 9:41 συχεμ Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
- Judges 9:46 συχεμ When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
- Judges 9:47 συχεμ It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- Judges 9:57 συχεμ and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
- Judges 21:19 συχεμ They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
- 1 Chronicles 6:52 συχεμ Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
- 1 Chronicles 7:19 συχεμ The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 συχεμ Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shechem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it;
- 2 Chronicles 10:1 συχεμ Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
- Jeremiah 48:5 συχεμ For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4966) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
