Bible Dictionary: The Shechemites

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The Shechemites

the family of Shechem son of Gilead. (Numbers 26:31) comp. Josh 17:2

Strong's Hebrew

7930. Shikmi -- descendant of Shechem
... descendant of Shechem. Transliteration: Shikmi Phonetic Spelling: (shik-mee') Short
Definition: Shechemites. ... of Shechem NASB Word Usage Shechemites (1). ...
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1170. Baal Berith -- "Baal of (the) covenant," a Shechemite god
... Baal-berith. From Ba'al and briyth; Baal of (the) covenant; Baal-Berith, a special
deity of the Shechemites -- Baal-berith. see HEBREW Ba'al. see HEBREW briyth. ...
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Library

That the Judges who Succeeded Gideon Made War with the Adjoining ...
... 3. A little while after this festival, the Shechemites, who had now repented themselves
of having slain the sons of Gideon, drove Abimelech away, both from ...
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Concerning the violation of Dina's Chastity.
... Now as the Shechemites were keeping a festival Dina, who was the only daughter of
Jacob, went into the city to see the finery of the women of that country. ...
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Concerning Sanballat and Manasseh, and the Temple which they Built ...
... And when Alexander had commended them, the Shechemites approached to him, taking
with them the troops that Sanballat had sent him, and they desired that he ...
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"It is I, be not Afraid. " Extracted from Knox's Admonition to ...
... he returned from Laban; and when he feared the inhabitants of the region of the
Canaanites and Perizzites for the slaughter of the Shechemites committed by his ...
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Of the Manifold Abuse of Speech.
... falsely, but insidiously, nay, hypocritically, abusing at once their proselytes,
and their religion, for the effecting their cruel designs upon the Shechemites ...
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But on the Death of Gideon, his Son Abimelech...
... having slain his brothers with the concurrence of a multitude of wicked men, and
especially by the help of the chief men among the Shechemites, took possession ...
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Israel, Therefore, Avoiding the House of his Brother, Sent Forward ...
... Israel, therefore, avoiding the house of his brother, sent forward his company to
Salem, a town of the Shechemites, and there he pitched his tent on a spot ...
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Celsus, Moreover, Sneers at the "Hatred" of Esau to Which...
... to the Scriptures, is acknowledged to have been wicked; and not clearly stating
the story of Simeon and Levi, who sallied out (on the Shechemites) on account ...
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Saul's War with the Amalekites, and Conquest of Them.
... Amalekites that reached from Pelusium of Egypt to the Red Sea, he laid waste all
the rest of the enemy's country: but for the nation of the Shechemites, he did ...
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Book 1 Footnotes:
... [38] Of this slaughter of the Shechemites by Simeon and Levi, see Authent.
Rec. Part I. p.309, 418, 432-439. But why Josephus has ...
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