THE TOWER OF BABEL & THE ANCESTRY OF ABRAHAM - Part Two
THE DESCENDANTS OF SHEM TO ABRAHAM Genesis 11:10-26 Shem in Arabic means ( he became high - form the verb Sama , and the Arabic word Sama means also the sky, we can notice that Shem could mean the man of the north where sham means north in Arabic , from the word Sham-il )
The purpose of this genealogy is to list the descendants of Shem unto Abraham, who is the father of the Nation of Israel ( where the word isra-el could mean the one who was raised by god - Jacob - and this could mean all the people of the world that believe in god, also the word Isra-il could mean the travelers form the Arabic verb sara means travel. ) .