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שׂוּם

sumto set: makeHow to read Hebrew
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. Deuteronomy 33:10יָשִׂ֤ימוּ · he will set
    He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
  2. Joshua 6:18וְשַׂמְתֶּ֞ם · you will set
    But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.
  3. Joshua 7:11שָׂ֥מוּ · they have put [these things]
    Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
  4. Joshua 7:19שִֽׂים־ · give
    So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
  5. Joshua 8:2שִׂים־ · Set up
    And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
  6. Joshua 8:12וַיָּ֨שֶׂם · and set up
    Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
  7. Joshua 8:13וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ · were stationed
    So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
  8. Joshua 8:28וַיְשִׂימֶ֤הָ · and made it
    So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
  9. Joshua 10:24שִׂ֚ימוּ · here and put; וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ · and put
    When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.
  10. Joshua 10:27וַיָּשִׂ֜מוּ · were placed
    At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.
  11. Joshua 24:7וַיָּ֨שֶׂם · and He put
    So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
  12. Joshua 24:25וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · he established
    On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
  13. Judges 1:28וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · they pressed
    When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
  14. Judges 4:21וַתָּ֧שֶׂם · grabbed
    But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
  15. Judges 6:19שָׂ֣ם · He placed; שָׂ֣ם
    So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
  16. Judges 7:22וַיָּ֣שֶׂם · set
    And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
  17. Judges 8:31וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · and he named
    His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
  18. Judges 8:33וַיָּשִׂ֧ימוּ · and they set up
    And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
  19. Judges 9:24לָשׂ֞וּם · be avenged
    …in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
  20. Judges 9:25וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ · set up
    The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
  21. Judges 9:48וַיָּ֖שֶׂם
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  22. Judges 9:49וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ · Then they piled [the branches]
    So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
  23. Judges 11:11וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ · made him
    So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
  24. Judges 12:3וָאָשִׂ֨ימָה · I risked
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
  25. Judges 15:4וַיָּ֨שֶׂם · and fastened
    Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
  26. Judges 16:3וַיָּ֖שֶׂם · Then he put [them]
    But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
  27. Judges 18:19שִֽׂים־ · Put
    “Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
  28. Judges 18:21וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ · Putting
    Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.
  29. Judges 18:31וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ · So they set up
    So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
  30. Judges 19:30שִֽׂימוּ־ · Think it over
    And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”
  31. Judges 20:29וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · set up
    So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
  32. Judges 20:36שָׂ֖מוּ · they had set
    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
  33. Ruth 3:3וְשַׂ֧מְתְּ · and wear
    Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
  34. 1 Samuel 2:20יָשֵׂם֩ · give
    And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
  35. 1 Samuel 6:8תָּשִׂ֥ימוּ · put
    Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
  36. 1 Samuel 6:11וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּ · Then they put
    Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.
  37. 1 Samuel 6:15וַיָּשִׂ֖מוּ · and they placed them
    And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.
  38. 1 Samuel 7:12וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · and set [it] up
    Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
  39. 1 Samuel 8:1וַיָּ֧שֶׂם · he appointed
    When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
  40. 1 Samuel 8:5שִֽׂימָה־ · appoint
    “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
  41. 1 Samuel 8:11וְשָׂ֥ם · and appoint [them]
    He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to serve his own chariots and horses, and to run in front of his chariots.
  42. 1 Samuel 8:12וְלָשׂ֣וּם · He will appoint
    He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
  43. 1 Samuel 9:20תָּ֧שֶׂם · worry
    As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”
  44. 1 Samuel 9:23שִׂ֥ים · you to set
    And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you and told you to set aside.”
  45. 1 Samuel 9:24וַיָּ֣שֶׂם׀ · and set [it]; שִׂים־ · [It] was set apart
    So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.
  46. 1 Samuel 10:19תָּשִׂ֣ים · set
    But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
  47. 1 Samuel 11:2וְשַׂמְתִּ֥יהָ · and bring
    But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”