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 41:22 וְנָשִׂ֤ימָה ve.na.Si.mah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

  2. Isaiah 42:4 יָשִׂ֥ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

  3. Isaiah 42:12 יָשִׂ֥ימוּ ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands.

  4. Isaiah 42:15 וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

  5. Isaiah 42:16 אָשִׂים֩ 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

  6. Isaiah 42:25 יָשִׂ֥ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

  7. Isaiah 43:19 אָשִׂ֤ים 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

  8. Isaiah 44:7 מִשּׂוּמִ֖י mi.su.Mi · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and that shall come to pass, let them declare.

  9. Isaiah 47:6 שַׂ֤מְתְּ samt · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

  10. Isaiah 47:7 שַׂ֥מְתְּ samt · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof.

  11. Isaiah 49:2 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:

  12. Isaiah 49:2 וַיְשִׂימֵ֙נִי֙ vay.si.Me.ni · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:

  13. Isaiah 49:11 וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

  14. Isaiah 50:2 אָשִׂ֤ים 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

  15. Isaiah 50:3 אָשִׂ֥ים 'a.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

  16. Isaiah 50:7 שַׂ֤מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

  17. Isaiah 51:3 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

  18. Isaiah 51:10 הַשָּׂ֙מָה֙ ha.Sa.mah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  19. Isaiah 51:16 וָאָשִׂ֤ים va.'a.Sim · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

  20. Isaiah 51:23 וְשַׂמְתִּ֙יהָ֙ ve.sam.Ti.ha · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

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