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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Judges 20:36 שָׂ֖מוּ Sa.mu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

  6. Ruth 3:3 וְשַׂ֧מְתְּ ve.Samt · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the threshing-floor, but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

  7. 1 Samuel 2:20 יָשֵׂם֩ ya.Sem · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Jehovah. And they went unto their own home.

  8. 1 Samuel 6:8 תָּשִׂ֥ימוּ ta.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    and take the ark of Jehovah, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

  9. 1 Samuel 6:11 וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    and they put the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.

  10. 1 Samuel 6:15 וַיָּשִׂ֖מוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And the Levites took down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto Jehovah.

  11. 1 Samuel 7:12 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.

  12. 1 Samuel 8:1 וַיָּ֧שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

  13. 1 Samuel 8:5 שִֽׂימָה־ si.mah- · A command to you: simple action

    and they said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

  14. 1 Samuel 8:11 וְשָׂ֥ם ve.Sam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

  15. 1 Samuel 8:12 וְלָשׂ֣וּם ve.la.Sum · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

  16. 1 Samuel 9:20 תָּ֧שֶׂם Ta.sem · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not they mind on them; for they are found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for thee, and for all thy father's house?

  17. 1 Samuel 9:23 שִׂ֥ים sim · A command to you: simple action

    And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

  18. 1 Samuel 9:24 וַיָּ֣שֶׂם׀ vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold, that which hath been reserved! set it before thee and eat; because unto the appointed time hath it been kept for thee, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

  19. 1 Samuel 9:24 שִׂים־ sim- · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold, that which hath been reserved! set it before thee and eat; because unto the appointed time hath it been kept for thee, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

  20. 1 Samuel 10:19 תָּשִׂ֣ים ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes, and by your thousands.

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