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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. 1 Kings 20:12 שִׂ֔ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.

  2. 1 Kings 20:12 וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.

  3. 1 Kings 20:24 וְשִׂ֥ים ve.Sim · A command to you: simple action

    And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their room;

  4. 1 Kings 20:31 נָשִׂ֣ימָה na.Si.mah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

  5. 1 Kings 20:34 תָּשִׂ֨ים ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let thee go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

  6. 1 Kings 20:34 שָׂ֤ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let thee go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

  7. 1 Kings 21:27 וַיָּֽשֶׂם־ vai.ya.sem- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

  8. 1 Kings 22:27 שִׂ֥ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

  9. 2 Kings 2:20 וְשִׂ֥ימוּ ve.Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

  10. 2 Kings 4:10 וְנָשִׂ֨ים ve.na.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

  11. 2 Kings 4:29 וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ ve.sam.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

  12. 2 Kings 4:31 וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

  13. 2 Kings 4:34 וַיָּשֶׂם֩ vai.ya.Sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

  14. 2 Kings 6:22 שִׂים֩ sim · A command to you: simple action

    And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

  15. 2 Kings 8:11 וַיָּ֣שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he settled his countenance stedfastly upon him, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

  16. 2 Kings 9:13 וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

  17. 2 Kings 9:30 וַתָּ֨שֶׂם va.Ta.sem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.

  18. 2 Kings 10:3 וְשַׂמְתֶּ֖ם ve.sam.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

  19. 2 Kings 10:7 וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.

  20. 2 Kings 10:8 שִׂ֣ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.

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