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. Genesis 46:3 אֲשִֽׂימְךָ֥ 'a.si.me.Kha · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

  2. Genesis 47:6 וְשַׂמְתָּ֛ם ve.sam.Tam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

  3. Genesis 47:26 וַיָּ֣שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.

  4. Genesis 47:29 שִֽׂים־ sim- · A command to you: simple action

    And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;

  5. Genesis 48:18 שִׂ֥ים sim · A command to you: simple action

    And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

  6. Genesis 48:20 יְשִֽׂמְךָ֣ ye.sim.Kha · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

  7. Genesis 48:20 וַיָּ֥שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

  8. Exodus 1:11 וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

  9. Exodus 2:3 וַתָּ֤שֶׂם va.Ta.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

  10. Exodus 2:3 וַתָּ֥שֶׂם va.Ta.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

  11. Exodus 2:14 שָֽׂמְךָ֞ sa.me.Kha · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

  12. Exodus 3:22 וְשַׂמְתֶּ֗ם ve.sam.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    but every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall despoil the Egyptians.

  13. Exodus 4:11 שָׂ֣ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

  14. Exodus 4:11 יָשׂ֣וּם ya.Sum · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

  15. Exodus 4:15 וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ ve.sam.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

  16. Exodus 4:21 שַׂ֣מְתִּי Sam.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.

  17. Exodus 5:8 תָּשִׂ֣ימוּ ta.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

  18. Exodus 5:14 שָׂ֣מוּ Sa.mu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?

  19. Exodus 8:12 שָׂ֥ם sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Jehovah concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh.

  20. Exodus 8:23 וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י ve.sam.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will put a division between my people and thy people: by to-morrow shall this sign be.

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