שָׁם
sham
“there”
Definition
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, H834 (אֲשֶׁר));
- there, thither 1a) there 1b) thither (after verbs of motion) 1c) from there, thence 1d) then (as an adverb of time) Aramaic equivalent: tam.mah (*תַּמָּה *"there" H8536)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adv
H:Adv
H:Adv
Occurrences
שָׁם appears 700 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
“Where did it fall?” asked the man of God.And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
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