A place named in the text.
Shechem is named in Genesis 12:6. The textual reference and a proposed modern identification are separate claims.
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Of the Torah · Leviticus 23
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Kept by many · instituted in later books
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Trace a word from the passage into its root and grammatical form.
IN THE PASSAGE · GENESIS 1:1
בָּרָא
bara
to create
ברא
ROOT LETTERS · H1254
NOTICE THE FORM
A word. In its sentence.
Verb · Qal · perfect · third person masculine singular. Read the form beside the passage, with the grammatical analysis separate from interpretation.
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Practice word recallExplore the alphabet and parsing practice
Paleo forms verified structurally against the Unicode Phoenician reference chart (2026-08-29; three corrected — see docs/paleo-letterform-verification.md); a proportion pass against stone photographs is owed before production art. Names and their meanings are the letters' traditional names T2 — meanings marked ⟳ are debated. Final forms (ך ם ן ף ץ) are a square-script development — Paleo has one form per letter T2. Sound values given are the ANCIENT ones — waw is w (the modern letter is vav, v), tsade is emphatic ṣ (today ts).
T4 · TRADITION
The teaching that a word's meaning derives from combining its letters' pictures is a community method — presented where used, never as established.
Reading the greeting — שלום, letter by letter
T2 · CONSENSUS
In שלום the waw is a mater lectionis — a consonant letter serving as a vowel sign, marking long ō. Read so, the word is shalom.
Gesenius §7; the same letter marks ō in לשון (lashon), תורה (torah).
T4 · TRADITION
In the Lashawan Qadash teaching the waw is a consonant and Hebrew's vowel is "a" — read so, the word is shalawam.
Held in parts of the American camp tradition. The app greets with this rendering, and shows both.
T2 · CONSENSUS
⭐ Both readings spell the word identically. The disagreement is entirely about vowels, and the First Temple script records none — so the Paleo form is the spelling every tradition here agrees on. That is why it is the site's mark: at the consonantal level there is no side to take.
The letters are ש·ל·ו·ם under either reading; only the vocalization differs.
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CONTEXT HAS A LANDSCAPE
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The hill country
Shechem
ILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE · NOT TO SCALE
LOCATION CONFIDENCE
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sited
probable
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A SMALL PRACTICE
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Word recall · Strong’s H7965
WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN?
שָׁלוֹם
shalom · H7965
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