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. Job 24:15 יָשִֽׂים׃ ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

  2. Job 24:25 וְיָשֵׂ֥ם ve.ya.Sem · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

  3. Job 28:3 שָׂ֤ם sam · An -ing word: simple action

    Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  4. Job 29:9 יָשִׂ֥ימוּ ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

  5. Job 31:24 שַׂ֣מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

  6. Job 33:11 יָשֵׂ֣ם ya.Sem · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

  7. Job 34:13 שָׂ֝֗ם Sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

  8. Job 34:14 יָשִׂ֣ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

  9. Job 34:23 יָשִׂ֣ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

  10. Job 36:13 יָשִׂ֣ימוּ ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

  11. Job 37:15 בְּשׂוּם־ be.sum- · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

  12. Job 38:5 שָׂ֣ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

  13. Job 38:9 בְּשׂוּמִ֣י be.su.Mi · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

  14. Job 38:10 וָֽ֝אָשִׂ֗ים va.'a.Sim · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

  15. Job 38:33 תָּשִׂ֖ים ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

  16. Job 39:6 שַׂ֣מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

  17. Job 40:4 שַׂ֣מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

  18. Job 41:2 הֲתָשִׂ֣ים ha.ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

  19. Job 41:8 שִׂים־ sim- · A command to you: simple action

    Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.

  20. Job 41:31 יָשִׂ֥ים ya.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

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