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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 3:7תְשִׂימֻ֖נִי · make me
    On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
  2. Isaiah 5:20שָׂמִ֨ים · who turn; שָׂמִ֥ים · who replace
    Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
  3. Isaiah 10:6וּלְשִׂימוֹ · and to trample them down
    I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  4. Isaiah 13:9לָשׂ֤וּם · to make
    Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
  5. Isaiah 14:17שָׂ֥ם · who turned
    …who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
  6. Isaiah 14:23וְשַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ · I will make her
    “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  7. Isaiah 21:4שָׂ֥ם · has turned
    My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
  8. Isaiah 23:13שָׂמָ֖הּ · They brought it
    Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
  9. Isaiah 25:2שַׂ֤מְתָּ · You have made
    Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
  10. Isaiah 27:9בְּשׂוּמ֣וֹ׀ · When he makes
    Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
  11. Isaiah 28:15שַׂ֧מְנוּ · we have made
    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
  12. Isaiah 28:17וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י · I will make
    I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
  13. Isaiah 28:25וְשָׂ֨ם · He plants
    When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
  14. Isaiah 37:29וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י · 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.’
  15. Isaiah 41:15שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְ · I will make you; תָּשִֽׂים׃ · and reduce
    Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
  16. Isaiah 41:18אָשִׂ֤ים · I will turn
    I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
  17. Isaiah 41:19אָשִׂ֣ים · I will set
    I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
  18. Isaiah 41:20וְיָשִׂ֤ימוּ · may consider
    …so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
  19. Isaiah 41:22וְנָשִׂ֤ימָה · so that we may reflect on
    “Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.
  20. Isaiah 42:4יָשִׂ֥ים · He has established
    He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
  21. Isaiah 42:12יָשִׂ֥ימוּ · Let them give
    Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.
  22. Isaiah 42:15וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י · I will turn
    I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
  23. Isaiah 42:16אָשִׂים֩ · I will turn
    I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
  24. Isaiah 42:25יָשִׂ֥ים · take
    So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
  25. Isaiah 43:19אָשִׂ֤ים · I will make
    Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
  26. Isaiah 44:7מִשּׂוּמִ֖י · since I established
    Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.
  27. Isaiah 47:6שַׂ֤מְתְּ · You showed them
    I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
  28. Isaiah 47:7שַׂ֥מְתְּ · take
    You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
  29. Isaiah 49:2וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · He made; וַיְשִׂימֵ֙נִי֙ · He made Me
    He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.
  30. Isaiah 49:11וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י · I will turn
    I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
  31. Isaiah 50:2אָשִׂ֤ים · into
    Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
  32. Isaiah 50:3אָשִׂ֥ים · and make
    I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
  33. Isaiah 50:7שַׂ֤מְתִּי · I have set
    Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
  34. Isaiah 51:3וַיָּ֤שֶׂם · He will make
    For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
  35. Isaiah 51:10הַשָּׂ֙מָה֙ · who made
    Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
  36. Isaiah 51:16וָאָשִׂ֤ים · I have put
    I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
  37. Isaiah 51:23וְשַׂמְתִּ֙יהָ֙ · I will place it; וַתָּשִׂ֤ימִי · so that you made
    I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
  38. Isaiah 53:10תָּשִׂ֤ים · is made
    Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
  39. Isaiah 54:12וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י · I will make
    I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
  40. Isaiah 57:1שָׂ֣ם · takes
    The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.
  41. Isaiah 57:7שַׂ֖מְתְּ · you have made
    On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
  42. Isaiah 57:8שַׂ֖מְתְּ · you have set up
    Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
  43. Isaiah 57:11שַׂ֖מְתְּ · take this
    Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?
  44. Isaiah 59:21שַׂ֣מְתִּי · I have put
    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
  45. Isaiah 60:15וְשַׂמְתִּיךְ֙ · I will make you
    Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
  46. Isaiah 60:17וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י · I will appoint
    Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.