General Notes

b. Genesis 5:32, Luke 3:36. d. Genesis 11:11.  He is the ancestor of those from Asia, the Semites. He was 100 yearsold when his son Arpac hshad was born (2 years after the flood), and then he lived another 500 years, and died at 60 0 years old. He received a special blessing from his father, Noah, "that he would be the Progenitor o f the Messiah". Also referred to as "The Great High Priest". Shem was the Father of Shemitic (Semitic) Race: Arabs, Hebrews,Phoenicians, Syrians, Babyl onians, and Assyrians.  He was given Asia within the Euphrates to the Indian Ocean, by his fa ther Noah.  The progenitor of all the Semitic races.  The name, Shem, is rendered asSumu in the Akkadia n inscriptions.  At the time of the scattering of the nations from Babel, the descendants o f Japeth migrated to the north andnorth-west of Shinar, mainly towards Europe.  They also mig rated to the south-east towards the Indian sub-continent, and thence to the Far East. The des cendants of Shem and Ham however, shared between them the southern and central regions of Asi a Minor and Arabia, with Ham's descendants subsequently spreading onto the African continent .  This, of course, meant that a certain amount of intermingling took place between the poste rities of Shem and Ham and it is consequently sometimes difficult to assess whether certain e arly nations were predominantly Semitic or Hamitic.  Sometimes, for example, a people descend ed from Ham would adopta Semitic language, and sometimes, a Semitic people would adopt an Ind o-European (Japhetic) tongue.  (Internet:www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm)  1  NAME Shem\Sceaf\Sam\SemSeskef // 2  SOUR S561261 3  NOTE GenCircles -- April 18, 2001