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שׂוּם

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hebrewOld TestamentVerb583 occurrences37 books549 verses

Definition

or שִׂים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Traditional renderings: × any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שׂוּם:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

583 total
  1. Genesis 2:8וַיָּ֣שֶׂם · He placed
    And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
  2. Genesis 4:15וַיָּ֨שֶׂם · placed
    “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
  3. Genesis 6:16תָּשִׂ֑ים · place
    You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
  4. Genesis 9:23וַיָּשִׂ֙ימוּ֙ · and placed
    Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
  5. Genesis 13:16וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י · I will make
    I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
  6. Genesis 21:13אֲשִׂימֶ֑נּוּ · make
    But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
  7. Genesis 21:14שָׂ֧ם · put them
    Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
  8. Genesis 21:18אֲשִׂימֶֽנּוּ׃ · I will make him
    Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
  9. Genesis 22:6וַיָּ֙שֶׂם֙ · and placed
    Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.
  10. Genesis 22:9וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · and placed
    When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
  11. Genesis 24:2שִֽׂים־ · Place
    So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
  12. Genesis 24:9וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · placed
    So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
  13. Genesis 24:47וָאָשִׂ֤ם · So I put
    Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
  14. Genesis 27:37שַׂמְתִּ֥יו · I have made
    But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
  15. Genesis 28:11וַיָּ֖שֶׂם · he put
    On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
  16. Genesis 28:18שָׂ֣ם · and he set it up; וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · he had placed
    Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
  17. Genesis 28:22שַׂ֙מְתִּי֙ · I have set up
    And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
  18. Genesis 30:36וַיָּ֗שֶׂם · Then he put
    Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
  19. Genesis 30:41וְשָׂ֨ם · would place
    Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
  20. Genesis 30:42יָשִׂ֑ים · set out the branches
    But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
  21. Genesis 31:21וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · and headed for
    So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
  22. Genesis 31:34וַתְּשִׂמֵ֛ם · put them
    Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
  23. Genesis 31:37שִׂ֣ים · Put
    You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
  24. Genesis 32:12וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י · and I will make
    But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
  25. Genesis 32:16תָּשִׂ֔ימוּ · and keep
    He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
  26. Genesis 33:2וַיָּ֧שֶׂם · He put
    He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
  27. Genesis 37:34וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · put
    Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
  28. Genesis 40:15שָׂמ֥וּ · they should have put
    For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
  29. Genesis 41:42וַיָּ֛שֶׂם · and placed
    Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
  30. Genesis 43:22שָׂ֥ם · put
    We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”
  31. Genesis 43:31שִׂ֥ימוּ · Serve
    Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”
  32. Genesis 43:32וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ · They separately served
    They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
  33. Genesis 44:1וְשִׂ֥ים · and put
    Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
  34. Genesis 44:2תָּשִׂים֙ · Put
    Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
  35. Genesis 44:21וְאָשִׂ֥ימָה · so that I can see
    Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.’
  36. Genesis 45:7לָשׂ֥וּם · to preserve
    God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
  37. Genesis 45:8וַיְשִׂימֵ֨נִֽי · who has made me
    Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  38. Genesis 45:9שָׂמַ֧נִי · has made me
    Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
  39. Genesis 46:3אֲשִֽׂימְךָ֥ · I will make
    “I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
  40. Genesis 47:6וְשַׂמְתָּ֛ם · put them
    …the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
  41. Genesis 47:26וַיָּ֣שֶׂם · established
    So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
  42. Genesis 47:29שִֽׂים־ · put
    When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
  43. Genesis 48:18שִׂ֥ים · put
    “Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
  44. Genesis 48:20יְשִֽׂמְךָ֣ · make; וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · So he put
    So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
  45. Exodus 1:11וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ · So [the Egyptians] appointed
    So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
  46. Exodus 2:3וַתָּ֤שֶׂם · Then she placed; וַתָּ֥שֶׂם · and set
    But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
  47. Exodus 2:14שָֽׂמְךָ֞ · made
    But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”