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שׂוּם

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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. 1 Kings 14:21לָשׂ֨וּם · to put
    Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  2. 1 Kings 18:23וְיָשִׂ֙ימוּ֙ · and place; יָשִׂ֑ימוּ · light; אָשִֽׂים׃ · light
    Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.
  3. 1 Kings 18:25תָשִֽׂימוּ׃ · light
    Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”
  4. 1 Kings 18:33וַיָּ֖שֶׂם · placed
    Next, he arranged the wood, cut up the bull, placed it on the wood,
  5. 1 Kings 18:42וַיָּ֥שֶׂם · and put
    So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
  6. 1 Kings 19:2אָשִׂ֣ים · I have not made
    So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like the lives of those you killed!”
  7. 1 Kings 20:6יָשִׂ֥ימוּ · They will seize
    But about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to search your palace and the houses of your servants. They will seize and carry away all that is precious to you.’”
  8. 1 Kings 20:12שִׂ֔ימוּ · Take your positions; וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ · So they stationed themselves
    Ben-hadad received this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” So they stationed themselves against the city.
  9. 1 Kings 20:24וְשִׂ֥ים · and replace them
    So do this: Dismiss all the kings from their positions and replace them with other officers.
  10. 1 Kings 20:31נָשִׂ֣ימָה · [with]
    Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
  11. 1 Kings 20:34תָּשִׂ֨ים · you may set up; שָׂ֤ם · [did]
    Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
  12. 1 Kings 21:27וַיָּֽשֶׂם־ · put
    When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
  13. 1 Kings 22:27שִׂ֥ימוּ · Put
    …and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
  14. 2 Kings 2:20וְשִׂ֥ימוּ · and put
    “Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.” So they brought it to him,
  15. 2 Kings 4:10וְנָשִׂ֨ים · and put
    Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
  16. 2 Kings 4:29וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ · Then lay
    So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
  17. 2 Kings 4:31וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · and laid
    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
  18. 2 Kings 4:34וַיָּשֶׂם֩
    Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
  19. 2 Kings 6:22שִׂים֩ · Set
    “Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”
  20. 2 Kings 8:11וַיָּ֣שֶׂם · steadily
    Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.
  21. 2 Kings 9:13וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ · and put [it]
    Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
  22. 2 Kings 9:30וַתָּ֨שֶׂם · So she painted
    Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
  23. 2 Kings 10:3וְשַׂמְתֶּ֖ם · set him
    …select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
  24. 2 Kings 10:7וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ · They put
    And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
  25. 2 Kings 10:8שִׂ֣ימוּ · Pile
    When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
  26. 2 Kings 10:24שָׂם־ · had stationed
    And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
  27. 2 Kings 10:27וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּ · and made
    They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.
  28. 2 Kings 11:16וַיָּשִׂ֤מוּ · So they seized
    So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
  29. 2 Kings 11:18וַיָּ֧שֶׂם · posted
    So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
  30. 2 Kings 12:17וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · decided
    At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.
  31. 2 Kings 13:7וַיְשִׂמֵ֥ם · and made them
    Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
  32. 2 Kings 13:16וַיָּ֧שֶׂם · put
    Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So the king put his hand on the bow, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.
  33. 2 Kings 17:34שָׂ֥ם · whom He named
    To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
  34. 2 Kings 18:14וַיָּ֨שֶׂם · exacted
    So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  35. 2 Kings 19:28וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י · I will put
    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  36. 2 Kings 20:7וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ · and applied
    Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
  37. 2 Kings 21:4אָשִׂ֥ים · I will put
    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
  38. 2 Kings 21:7וַיָּ֕שֶׂם · and set it up; אָשִׂ֥ים · I will establish
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  39. 1 Chronicles 10:10וַיָּשִׂ֙ימוּ֙ · They put
    They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
  40. 1 Chronicles 11:25וַיְשִׂימֵ֥הוּ · appointed him
    He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.
  41. 1 Chronicles 17:9וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י · And I will provide
    And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
  42. 1 Chronicles 17:21לָשׂ֤וּם · You made
    And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
  43. 1 Chronicles 18:6וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · placed [garrisons]
    Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
  44. 1 Chronicles 18:13וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · He placed
    He placed garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
  45. 1 Chronicles 26:10וַיְשִׂימֵ֥הוּ · had appointed him
    Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),