שׂוּם

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

• to set: make H7760A 273
• to set: put H7760H · a Meaning of 239
• to set: consider H7760K · a Meaning of 29
• to set: appoint H7760L · a Meaning of 26
• to set: take H7760I · a Meaning of 9
• to set: name H7760M · a Meaning of 5
• to set: accuse H7760J · a Meaning of 3
• fate H7760B 1

Strong's dictionary

or שִׂים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

21. 1 Samuel 18:13 וַיְשִׂמֵ֥הוּ vay.si.Me.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

22. 1 Samuel 19:5 וַיָּשֶׂם֩ vai.ya.Sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

23. 1 Samuel 19:13 וַתָּ֙שֶׂם֙ va.Ta.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

24. 1 Samuel 19:13 שָׂ֖מָה Sa.mah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

25. 1 Samuel 21:6 לָשׂוּם֙ la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

26. 1 Samuel 21:12 וַיָּ֧שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

27. 1 Samuel 22:7 יָשִׂ֔ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

28. 1 Samuel 22:15 יָשֵׂם֩ ya.Sem · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

29. 1 Samuel 25:18 וַתָּ֖שֶׂם va.Ta.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

30. 1 Samuel 25:25 יָשִׂ֣ים ya.Sim · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

31. 1 Samuel 28:2 אֲשִֽׂימְךָ֖ 'a.si.me.Kha · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And David said to Achish, Therefore thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of my head for ever.

32. 1 Samuel 28:21 וָאָשִׂ֤ים va.'a.Sim · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thy handmaid hath hearkened unto thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

33. 1 Samuel 28:22 וְאָשִׂ֧מָה ve.'a.Si.mah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

34. 1 Samuel 30:25 וַיְשִׂמֶ֜הָ vay.si.Me.ha · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

35. 1 Samuel 31:10 וַיָּשִׂ֙מוּ֙ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.