שׂוּם

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)

Every occurrence

1. Judges 1:28 וַיָּ֥שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And it came to pass, when Israel was waxed strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.

2. Judges 4:21 וַתָּ֧שֶׂם va.Ta.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

3. Judges 6:19 שָׂ֣ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

4. Judges 6:19 שָׂ֣ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

5. Judges 7:22 וַיָּ֣שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

6. Judges 8:31 וַיָּ֥שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

7. Judges 8:33 וַיָּשִׂ֧ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

   And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

8. Judges 9:24 לָשׂ֞וּם la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

   that the violence done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.

9. Judges 9:25 וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

   And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

10. Judges 9:48 וַיָּ֖שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

11. Judges 9:49 וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

12. Judges 11:11 וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah.

13. Judges 12:3 וָאָשִׂ֨ימָה va.'a.Si.mah · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

14. Judges 15:4 וַיָּ֨שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.

15. Judges 16:3 וַיָּ֖שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

16. Judges 18:19 שִֽׂים־ sim- · A command to you: simple action

    And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

17. Judges 18:21 וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them.

18. Judges 18:31 וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

19. Judges 19:30 שִֽׂימוּ־ si.mu- · A command to all of you: simple action

    And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.

20. Judges 20:29 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

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