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HebrewH7760Verb

שׂוּם

sum

508Occurrences
H7760Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

or שִׂים; a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
make/establish 1) to put, place, set, appoint, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to put, set, lay, put or lay upon, lay (violent) hands on 1a2) to set, direct, direct toward 1a2a) to extend (compassion) (fig) 1a3) to set, ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix 1a4) to set, station, put, set in place, plant, fix 1a5) to make, make for, transform into, constitute, fashion, work, bring to pass, appoint, give 1b) (Hiphil) to set or make for a sign 1c) (Hophal) to be set

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

שׂוּם appears 508 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
50
Exodus
44
Genesis
43
Job
37
Jeremiah
34
Ezk
32
1 Samuel
31
2 Kings
24

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:10BSB

They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

2 Samuel 17:25BSB

Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

Ezk 25:2BSB

Verse text unavailable

Isaiah 50:2BSB

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 waterand die of thirst.

Job 38:10BSB

when I fixed its boundariesand set in place its bars and doors,

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