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. Deuteronomy 17:15 שׂ֣וֹם Som · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

  2. Deuteronomy 17:15 תָּשִׂ֤ים ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

  3. Deuteronomy 17:15 תָּשִׂ֤ים ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

  4. Deuteronomy 22:8 תָשִׂ֤ים ta.Sim · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

  5. Deuteronomy 22:14 וְשָׂ֥ם ve.Sam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  6. Deuteronomy 22:17 שָׂם֩ sam · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

  7. Deuteronomy 26:2 וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ ve.sam.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

  8. Deuteronomy 27:15 וְשָׂ֣ם ve.Sam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

  9. Deuteronomy 31:19 שִׂימָ֣הּ si.Mah · A command to you: simple action

    Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

  10. Deuteronomy 31:26 וְשַׂמְתֶּ֣ם ve.sam.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

  11. Deuteronomy 32:46 שִׂ֣ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this law.

  12. Deuteronomy 33:10 יָשִׂ֤ימוּ ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.

  13. Joshua 6:18 וְשַׂמְתֶּ֞ם ve.sam.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when ye have devoted it, ye take of the devoted thing; so would ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

  14. Joshua 7:11 שָׂ֥מוּ Sa.mu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.

  15. Joshua 7:19 שִֽׂים־ sim- · A command to you: simple action

    And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

  16. Joshua 8:2 שִׂים־ sim- · A command to you: simple action

    And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the city behind it.

  17. Joshua 8:12 וַיָּ֨שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

  18. Joshua 8:13 וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So they set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait that were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

  19. Joshua 8:28 וַיְשִׂימֶ֤הָ vay.si.Me.ha · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

  20. Joshua 10:24 שִׂ֚ימוּ Si.mu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

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