Shem

n. eldest son of Noah (Old Testament), father of the semitic peoples

Shem ( ; Greek: Σημ, Sēm ; Arabic: ; Ge'ez: Sham ; "renown; prosperity; name") was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son. Genesis 10:21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity in each to have yielded different translations. The verse is translated in the KJV as "Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.". However, the New American Standard Bible gives, "Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born."
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Noun
1. (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah
(hypernym) man, adult male
(classification) Old Testament

[Judaic] The eldest son of Noah. After the flood, he populated the central portions of the known world, among which the Semitic peoples (Shemites or Semites).

Shem shem (Hebrew) Name; eldest of the three sons of Noah (Genesis 10), reputed founder of the Shemitic race. The Hebrew legend of Noah and his sons populating the globe after the deluge can refer to any root-race or large subordinate subrace, Noah and his family standing for the seeds of life carried over from one global or minor catastrophe to the beginning of the new racial period; hence Noah stands for the collective humanity of the beginning of the fifth root-race, although the legend of Noah and his ark can apply equally well to larger things, such as the beginning of the pralaya of a globe or of a planetary chain.