Genesis 9:23
וַ יִּקַּח שֵׁם וָ יֶפֶת אֶת הַ שִּׂמְלָה וַ יָּשִׂימוּ עַל שְׁכֶם שְׁנֵיהֶם וַ יֵּלְכוּ אֲחֹרַנִּית וַ יְכַסּוּ אֵת עֶרְוַת אֲבִיהֶם וּ פְנֵיהֶם אֲחֹרַנִּית וְ עֶרְוַת אֲבִיהֶם לֹא רָאוּ
And Name is taking,346 and Opened, אֶת-the Mantle,347 and they are placing upon the shoulder348 of their double, and they are walking backward,349 and are covering אֶת-the naked-one of their father. And their faces are backward, and the naked-one of their father they have not seen.
| 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.” |
