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. Jeremiah 2:7 שַׂמְתֶּ֖ם sam.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  2. Jeremiah 4:7 לָשׂ֤וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  3. Jeremiah 5:22 שַׂ֤מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

  4. Jeremiah 6:8 אֲשִׂימֵ֣ךְ 'a.si.Mekh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

  5. Jeremiah 7:30 שָׂ֣מוּ Sa.mu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  6. Jeremiah 9:8 יָשִׂ֥ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

  7. Jeremiah 10:22 לָשׂ֞וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

  8. Jeremiah 11:13 שַׂמְתֶּ֤ם sam.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

  9. Jeremiah 12:11 שָׂמָהּ֙ sa.Mah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

  10. Jeremiah 12:11 שָׂ֥ם sam · An -ing word: simple action

    They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

  11. Jeremiah 13:1 וְשַׂמְתּ֖וֹ ve.sam.To · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

  12. Jeremiah 13:2 וָאָשִׂ֖ם va.'a.Sim · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    So I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.

  13. Jeremiah 13:16 וְשָׂמָ֣הּ ve.sa.Mah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  14. Jeremiah 17:5 וְשָׂ֥ם ve.Sam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

  15. Jeremiah 18:16 לָשׂ֥וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  16. Jeremiah 19:8 וְשַׂמְתִּי֙ ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

  17. Jeremiah 21:10 שַׂ֣מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

  18. Jeremiah 24:6 וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

  19. Jeremiah 25:9 וְשַׂמְתִּים֙ ve.sam.Tim · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

  20. Jeremiah 25:12 וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.

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