Definition
a primitive word [perhaps rather from H7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare H8064]; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
Traditional renderings: base, (in-) fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
Traditional renderings: base, (in-) fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שֵׁם:
- ὄνομαonoma“name”97%
Usage patterns
Occurrences
864 total
- Jeremiah 14:15בִּשְׁמִי֮ · in My nameTherefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
- Jeremiah 14:21שִׁמְךָ֔ · Your nameFor the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
- Jeremiah 15:16שִׁמְךָ֙ · Your nameYour words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 16:21שְׁמִ֥י · My name“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:3שְׁמֶ֔ךָThe next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
- Jeremiah 20:9בִּשְׁמ֔וֹ · in His nameIf I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
- Jeremiah 23:6שְּׁמ֥וֹ · is His nameIn His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
- Jeremiah 23:25בִּשְׁמִ֛י · in My name“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
- Jeremiah 23:27שְׁמִ֔י · My name; שְׁמִ֖י · My nameThey suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
- Jeremiah 25:29שְׁמִ֣י · My NameFor behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
- Jeremiah 26:9בְשֵׁם־ · in the nameHow dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 26:16בְּשֵׁ֛ם · in the nameThen the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”
- Jeremiah 26:20בְּשֵׁ֣ם · in the nameNow there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
- Jeremiah 27:15בִּשְׁמִ֖י · in My nameFor I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
- Jeremiah 29:9בִּשְׁמִ֑י · in My nameFor they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 29:21בִּשְׁמִ֖י · in My nameThis is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
- Jeremiah 29:23בִּשְׁמִי֙ · in My nameFor they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 29:25בְשִׁמְכָ֜ה · In your own name…this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
- Jeremiah 31:35שְׁמֽוֹ׃ · is His nameThus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
- Jeremiah 32:18שְׁמֽוֹ׃ · whose nameYou show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
- Jeremiah 32:20שֵׁ֖ם · a nameYou 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.
- Jeremiah 32:34שְׁמִ֥י · My NameThey have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Jeremiah 33:2שְׁמֽוֹ׃ · is His name“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:
- Jeremiah 33:9לְשֵׁ֤ם · renownSo this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
- Jeremiah 34:15שְׁמִ֖י · My NameRecently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
- Jeremiah 34:16שְׁמִ֔י · My nameBut now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
- Jeremiah 37:13וּשְׁמוֹ֙ · whose nameBut when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
- Jeremiah 44:16בְּשֵׁ֣ם · in the name“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
- Jeremiah 44:26בִּשְׁמִ֤י · name; שְׁמִ֜י · My nameNevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, ‘As surely as the Lord GOD lives.’
- Jeremiah 46:18שְׁמ֑וֹ · whose nameAs surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
- Jeremiah 48:15שְׁמֽוֹ׃ · whose nameMoab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 48:17שְׁמ֑וֹ · his nameMourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!
- Jeremiah 50:34שְׁמ֔וֹ · is His nameTheir Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:19שְׁמֽוֹ׃ס · is His nameThe Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
- Jeremiah 51:57שְׁמֽוֹ׃ס · whose nameI will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 52:1וְשֵׁ֣ם · nameZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
- Lamentations 3:55שִׁמְךָ֙ · Your nameI called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
- Ezekiel 16:14שֵׁ֛ם · fameYour fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 16:15שְׁמֵ֑ךְ · your fameBut because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
- Ezekiel 20:9שְׁמִ֔י · of My nameBut I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:14שְׁמִ֑י · of My nameBut I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezekiel 20:22שְׁמִ֑י · of My nameBut I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezekiel 20:29שְׁמָהּ֙So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)
- Ezekiel 20:39שֵׁ֤ם · nameAnd as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
- Ezekiel 20:44שְׁמִ֑י · of My nameThen you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 22:5הַשֵּׁ֔םThose near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.
- Ezekiel 23:4וּשְׁמוֹתָ֗ן · was named; וּשְׁמוֹתָ֕ן · [As] [for] their identitiesThe older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.