Sichem

Lightfoot [32: 1] considered Sychar a mere alteration of the name Sichem, both representing the same place.

A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays Walter R. Cassels 1866

The tanker Sichem Defender arrived at the port of Barcelona yesterday carrying something far more precious than its usual cargo of chemicals.

A New River in the Mediterranean Sea 2008

Another difficulty is, that in one place it is said that Abraham bought this field in Hebron, and in another at Sichem.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

We perfectly understand the crime of the patriarch Judah, and of the patriarchs Simeon and Levi, his brothers, at Sichem; but it is more difficult to understand the sin of Onan.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

A history of the little kingdoms of Judah and Sichem, for instance — is it anything but a history?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

As for the little country of Samaria and Sichem, more fertile than that of Jerusalem, it was re-peopled by foreign colonies, sent there by Assyrian kings, who took the name of Samaritans.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Book of Genesis, "And Abraham passed through the land to the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh, and the Canaanite was then in the land"; 40 which must needs be the words of one that wrote when the Canaanite was not in the land; and consequently, not of Moses, who died before he came into it.

Leviathan 2007

Then there was between these two small peoples a hatred, the more implacable as they were kinsmen and neighbors, and as they had different religions; for at Sichem and at Samaria they worshipped

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In what manner God spake to Adam, and Eve, and Cain, and Noah is not expressed; nor how he spake to Abraham, till such time as he came out of his own country to Sichem in the land of Canaan, and then God is said to have appeared to him. 135 So there is one way whereby God made His presence manifest; that is, by an apparition, or vision.

Leviathan 2007

At Sichem were consecrated two calves; at Jerusalem, two cherubim — which were two winged animals with double heads, placed in the sanctuary.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007