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Shechem or Shchem (שכם "Shoulder", Standard Hebrew Šəḫem / Šəḫam, Tiberian Hebrew Šəḵem / Šəḵām), the location of Jacob's Well , where Gospel of John 4:5-6 sets Jesus' meeting with the woman of Samaria, lay in a narrow shoulder of land in the narrow valley between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal , approximately 65 km north of Jerusalem. The Ancient Roman and Arab city of Nablus lies 2 km to the west of the site. Josephus, writing in about AD 90 (Jewish Antiquities book 4, 8.44), placed the city between Mt Gerizim and Mt Ebal, and other ancient writers knew that it was on the outskirts of "Neapolis"/ Nablus, but its archaeological site was only stumbled upon in 1903 by a German party of archaeologists led by Dr Hermann Thiersch , at a site known as Tell Balatah, beside the traditional site associated with the tomb of Joseph (Joshua 24:32). Shechem had been a CanaaniteCanaanite can describe anything pertaining to Canaan: in particular, its languages and inhabitants. Disambiguation. settlement, mentioned on an EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 kmē 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797ian steleStele is also a concept in plant biology. Ancient Egyptian funerary stela A stela or stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the of a noble at the court of Senusret III (c. 188020th century BC 19th century BC 18th century BC other centuries) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events Hittite empire in Anatolia 1829 1818 BC Egyptian-Nubian war 1818 BC Egyptian Campaign in Palestine 1813 BC Amorite Conquest of - 1840 BC20th century BC 19th century BC 18th century BC other centuries) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events Hittite empire in Anatolia 1829 1818 BC Egyptian-Nubian war 1818 BC Egyptian Campaign in Palestine 1813 BC Amorite Conquest of). Shechem first appears in the Tanakh in Genesis 12:6-8, which records how AbrahamAbraham "Father/Leader of many", Standard Hebrew Avraham Tiberian Hebrew Arhm Arabic Ibrhim is the patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. His story is told in the Book of Genesis. Islam also regards him as the ancestor of the Bedouins, through Ish reached the "great tree of MorehMoreh an archer, teacher; fruitful. A Canaanite probably who inhabited the district south of Shechem, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, and gave his name to the "plain" there (Gen. Here at this "plain," or rather (R. oak," of Moreh, Abraham built his first" at Shechem and offered sacrifice nearby. Later Joseph's bones were brought out of Egypt and reburied at Shechem.
In Acts vii. 16 the place is called "Sychem", and in the Gospel of John v. 5 it is called "Sychar".
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