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. Nehemiah 8:8 וְשׂ֣וֹם ve.Som · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

  2. Nehemiah 9:7 וְשַׂ֥מְתָּ ve.Sam.ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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