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. Isaiah 3:7 תְשִׂימֻ֖נִי te.si.Mu.ni · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.

  2. Isaiah 5:20 שָׂמִ֨ים sa.Mim · An -ing word: simple action

    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  3. Isaiah 5:20 שָׂמִ֥ים sa.Mim · An -ing word: simple action

    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  4. Isaiah 10:6 וּלְשׂוּמ֥וֹ u.le.si.mov · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  5. Isaiah 13:9 לָשׂ֤וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

  6. Isaiah 14:17 שָׂ֥ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

  7. Isaiah 14:23 וְשַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ ve.sam.Ti.ha · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  8. Isaiah 21:4 שָׂ֥ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

  9. Isaiah 23:13 שָׂמָ֖הּ sa.Mah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.

  10. Isaiah 25:2 שַׂ֤מְתָּ Sam.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

  11. Isaiah 27:9 בְּשׂוּמ֣וֹ׀ be.su.Mo · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

  12. Isaiah 28:15 שַׂ֧מְנוּ Sam.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us

    Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

  13. Isaiah 28:17 וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

  14. Isaiah 28:25 וְשָׂ֨ם ve.Sam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

  15. Isaiah 37:29 וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

  16. Isaiah 41:15 שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְ sam.Tikh · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

  17. Isaiah 41:15 תָּשִֽׂים׃ ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

  18. Isaiah 41:18 אָשִׂ֤ים 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  19. Isaiah 41:19 אָשִׂ֣ים 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:

  20. Isaiah 41:20 וְיָשִׂ֤ימוּ ve.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

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