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

1. 2 Chronicles 1:5 שָׂ֕ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Jehovah: and Solomon and the assembly sought unto it.

2. 2 Chronicles 6:11 וָאָשִׂ֥ים va.'a.Sim · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

   And there have I set the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel.

3. 2 Chronicles 6:20 לָשׂ֥וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

   that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

4. 2 Chronicles 12:13 לָשׂ֨וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

   So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

5. 2 Chronicles 18:26 שִׂ֥ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

   and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

6. 2 Chronicles 23:15 וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

   So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.

7. 2 Chronicles 23:18 וַיָּשֶׂם֩ vai.ya.Sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

8. 2 Chronicles 33:7 וַיָּ֕שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

9. 2 Chronicles 33:7 אָשִׂ֥ים 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

   And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

10. 2 Chronicles 33:14 וַיָּ֧שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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