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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. Micah 2:12אֲשִׂימֶ֖נּוּ · I will bring them
    I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
  2. Micah 4:7וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י · And I will make
    And I will make the lame into a remnant, the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
  3. Micah 4:13אָשִׂ֤ים · I will give you; אָשִׂ֣ים
    Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
  4. Micah 5:1שָׂ֣ם · is laid
    Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
  5. Micah 7:16יָשִׂ֤ימוּ · They will put
    Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
  6. Nahum 1:14אָשִׂ֥ים · I will prepare
    The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
  7. Nahum 3:6וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ · I will make
    I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
  8. Habakkuk 1:12שַׂמְתּ֔וֹ · You have appointed them
    Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
  9. Habakkuk 2:9לָשׂ֤וּם · to place
    Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
  10. Habakkuk 3:19וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · He makes
    GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.
  11. Zephaniah 2:13וְיָשֵׂ֤ם · He will make
    And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
  12. Zephaniah 3:19וְשַׂמְתִּים֙ · and I will appoint
    Behold, at that time, I will deal with all who afflict you. I will save the lame and gather the scattered; and I will appoint praise and fame for the disgraced throughout the earth.
  13. Haggai 1:5שִׂ֥ימוּ · Consider carefully
    Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  14. Haggai 1:7שִׂ֥ימוּ · Consider carefully
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  15. Haggai 2:15שִֽׂימוּ־; שֽׂוּם־ · was placed
    Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
  16. Haggai 2:18שִׂימוּ־ · Consider carefully; שִׂ֥ימוּ · consider carefully
    Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
  17. Haggai 2:23וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךָ · and I will make you
    On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
  18. Zechariah 3:5יָשִׂ֛ימוּ · Let them put; וַיָּשִׂימוּ֩ · was placed
    Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him, as the angel of the LORD stood by.
  19. Zechariah 6:11וְשַׂמְתָּ֗ · and set
    Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.
  20. Zechariah 7:12שָׂ֣מוּ · They made
    They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
  21. Zechariah 7:14וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ · Thus they turned
    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
  22. Zechariah 9:13וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ · I will make you
    For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
  23. Zechariah 10:3וְשָׂ֣ם · He will make
    “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts attends to His flock, the house of Judah; He will make them like His royal steed in battle.
  24. Zechariah 12:2שָׂ֣ם · will make
    “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.
  25. Zechariah 12:3אָשִׂ֨ים · I will make
    On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.
  26. Zechariah 12:6אָשִׂים֩ · I will make
    On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.
  27. Malachi 1:3וָאָשִׂ֤ים · and I have made
    …but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
  28. Malachi 2:2תָשִׂ֨ימוּ · take [it]; שָׂמִ֥ים · taking
    If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.