שׂוּם

sum · to set: make

Hebrew · Strong's H7760 · Verb · Sounds like: soom · 585 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שׂוּם, שִׂים 582 vb. put, place, set
Qal
1.
a. put, set, in a place
b. put something upon
c. put, lay, set
d. put, c. בֵּין
2. set, direct
3.
a. set, ordain, in a place
b. set, establish a law, statute
c. set, found a nation
d. set, appoint (as ruler, official)
e. set, constitute, make
f. set, determine, fix, bounds
4.
a. set, station, at a post
b. put in position, sacred bread, sword, staves, bars
c. set up altars
d. = plant, wheat
e. set, fix (countenance)
5.
a. make a thing, or pers. (acc.), for, transform into
b. make, constitute
c. work, bring to pass
d. appoint, give
e. set, fix (countenance)
Hiph. I will make him for a sign
Hoph. there was set before him
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שׂוּמָה perhaps n. f. token of unluckiness, scowl;—2 S 13:32

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Kings 2:20 וְשִׂ֥ימוּ ve.Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

  2. 2 Kings 4:10 וְנָשִׂ֨ים ve.na.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

  3. 2 Kings 4:29 וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ ve.sam.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

  4. 2 Kings 4:31 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

  5. 2 Kings 4:34 וַיָּשֶׂם֩ vai.ya.Sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

  6. 2 Kings 6:22 שִׂים֩ sim · A command to you: simple action

    And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

  7. 2 Kings 8:11 וַיָּ֣שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he settled his countenance stedfastly upon him, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

  8. 2 Kings 9:13 וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

  9. 2 Kings 9:30 וַתָּ֨שֶׂם va.Ta.sem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.

  10. 2 Kings 10:3 וְשַׂמְתֶּ֖ם ve.sam.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

  11. 2 Kings 10:7 וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.

  12. 2 Kings 10:8 שִׂ֣ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.

  13. 2 Kings 10:24 שָׂם־ som- · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.

  14. 2 Kings 10:27 וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּ vay.si.Mu.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

  15. 2 Kings 11:16 וַיָּשִׂ֤מוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.

  16. 2 Kings 11:18 וַיָּ֧שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Jehovah.

  17. 2 Kings 12:17 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

  18. 2 Kings 13:7 וַיְשִׂמֵ֥ם vay.si.Mem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

  19. 2 Kings 13:16 וַיָּ֧שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon the bow; and he put his hand upon it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands.

  20. 2 Kings 17:34 שָׂ֥ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

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