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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. Isaiah 61:3לָשׂ֣וּם׀ · to console
    …to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
  2. Isaiah 62:7יָשִׂ֧ים · and makes her
    …nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
  3. Isaiah 63:11הַשָּׂ֥ם · is the One who set
    Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
  4. Isaiah 66:19וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י · I will establish
    I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.
  5. Jeremiah 2:7שַׂמְתֶּ֖ם · and made
    I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.
  6. Jeremiah 4:7לָשׂ֤וּם · to lay
    A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
  7. Jeremiah 5:22שַׂ֤מְתִּי · set
    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
  8. Jeremiah 6:8אֲשִׂימֵ֣ךְ · I will make
    Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
  9. Jeremiah 7:30שָׂ֣מוּ · They have set up
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  10. Jeremiah 9:8יָשִׂ֥ים · he sets
    Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
  11. Jeremiah 10:22לָשׂ֞וּם · It will make
    Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
  12. Jeremiah 11:13שַׂמְתֶּ֤ם · you have set up
    Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
  13. Jeremiah 12:11שָׂמָהּ֙ · They have made; שָׂ֥ם · takes
    They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
  14. Jeremiah 13:1וְשַׂמְתּ֖וֹ · and put
    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
  15. Jeremiah 13:2וָאָשִׂ֖ם · and I put
    So I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.
  16. Jeremiah 13:16וְשָׂמָ֣הּ · but He turns it
    Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
  17. Jeremiah 17:5וְשָׂ֥ם · who makes
    This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
  18. Jeremiah 18:16לָשׂ֥וּם · They have made
    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
  19. Jeremiah 19:8וְשַׂמְתִּי֙ · I will make
    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  20. Jeremiah 21:10שַׂ֣מְתִּי · I have set
    For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
  21. Jeremiah 24:6וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י · I will keep
    I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
  22. Jeremiah 25:9וְשַׂמְתִּים֙ · and make them
    …behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
  23. Jeremiah 25:12וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י · and I will make
    But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
  24. Jeremiah 29:22יְשִֽׂמְךָ֤ · make
    Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
  25. Jeremiah 31:21שִׂ֤מִי · put up
    “Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.
  26. Jeremiah 32:20שַׂ֠מְתָּ · You performed
    You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
  27. Jeremiah 32:34וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ · They have placed
    They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  28. Jeremiah 33:25שָֽׂמְתִּי׃ · established
    This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
  29. Jeremiah 38:12שִׂ֣ים · Put
    Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
  30. Jeremiah 39:12שִׂ֣ים
    “Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
  31. Jeremiah 40:4וְאָשִׂ֤ים · and I will take care of
    But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
  32. Jeremiah 40:10וְשִׂ֙מוּ֙ · place them
    As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
  33. Jeremiah 42:15שׂ֣וֹם · are determined; תְּשִׂמ֤וּן
    …then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,
  34. Jeremiah 42:17שָׂ֨מוּ · resolve
    So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
  35. Jeremiah 43:10וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י · and I will set
    Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
  36. Jeremiah 44:11שָׂ֥ם · I will set
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.
  37. Jeremiah 44:12שָׂ֨מוּ · have resolved
    And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
  38. Jeremiah 49:38וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י · I will set
    I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials,” declares the LORD.
  39. Jeremiah 51:29לָשׂ֞וּם · to make
    The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
  40. Lamentations 3:11שָׂמַ֥נִי · He left me
    He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
  41. Lamentations 3:45תְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּ · You have made us
    You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
  42. Ezekiel 4:2וְשִׂים־ · and place
    Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
  43. Ezekiel 4:4וְשַׂמְתָּ֛ · and place
    Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.
  44. Ezekiel 5:5שַׂמְתִּ֑יהָ · which I have set
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
  45. Ezekiel 6:2שִׂ֥ים · set
    “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
  46. Ezekiel 7:20שָׂמָ֔הוּ · they transformed
    His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
  47. Ezekiel 11:7שַׂמְתֶּ֣ם · you have laid
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.
  48. Ezekiel 13:17שִׂ֤ים · set
    Now, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them