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. Exodus 40:8 וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ ve.sam.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

  2. Exodus 40:18 וַיָּ֙שֶׂם֙ vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars.

  3. Exodus 40:19 וַיָּ֜שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  4. Exodus 40:20 וַיָּ֥שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:

  5. Exodus 40:21 וַיָּ֗שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  6. Exodus 40:24 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

  7. Exodus 40:26 וַיָּ֛שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil:

  8. Exodus 40:28 וַיָּ֛שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

  9. Exodus 40:29 שָׂ֕ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he set the altar of burnt-offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  10. Exodus 40:30 וַיָּ֙שֶׂם֙ vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash.

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