Shechem
she.khem is a personal name borne by a son of Shemida and by a Manassite family ancestor.
The attested form is a personal name: 1 Chronicles 7:19 lists it among Shemida's sons, while Joshua 17:2 and Numbers 26:31 place it within the family lines of Manasseh.
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Personal name in genealogical family lists · dominant
All three occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper and occur in genealogical listings. In 1 Chronicles 7:19 the APB renders the name among “The sons of Shemida”; in Joshua 17:2 it appears in the line “the sons of Shechem,” and Numbers 26:31 pairs Shechem with “the clan of the Shechemites.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the form as “Shechem” in a list of Shemida's sons and in Manasseh's family lines; in Numbers 26:31 it also renders the associated clan as “the Shechemites.” The precise contribution of the form to the clan expression cannot be isolated further.