Genesis 9:23
Footnote:
348 | Strong’s #7926, שְׁכֶ֣ם, shekem. Singular noun, shoulder. “Shoulder” is not found in the dual or plural in the Hebrew Scriptures. The shekem is not that part we understand as the right and left shoulders but the area between the shoulder blades or upper part of the back under the neck (cf. Gesenius). the shoulder in Hebrew. “And finding, he lays upon the shoulders of himself” Luke 15:5 literal This an important allegorical part of the Body. In Isa 9:6 it is said, “she is becoming the Government upon his shoulder.” Isa. 22:22, “I have given the key of the house of David upon his shoulder.” Zeph. 3:9 literal, “…to serve Him a shoulder of one.” |