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שׂוּם

sum

soom

Strong's 1890 spelling: sûwm

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

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.

  • 584
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 274
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 274

  • וַיָּ֥שֶׂם17
  • וַיָּ֤שֶׂם12
  • שָׂ֣ם11
  • שָׂ֥ם10
  • וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ9
  • וַיָּ֣שֶׂם9
  • וַיָּ֨שֶׂם9
  • וַיָּ֧שֶׂם8
  • שַׂ֣מְתִּי8
  • וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י7
  • יָשִׂ֥ים7
  • לָשׂ֥וּם7

and 262 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 258

  • and he put36
  • and you will put16
  • put14
  • to put11
  • and I will make10
  • and they put10
  • and he set8
  • and he made7
  • set7
  • to make7
  • and he put [it]6
  • he made6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 106

  • Hc/Vqw3ms76
  • Hc/Vqw3mp31
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular30
  • Hc/Vqq1cs23
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)22
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular21
  • Hc/Vqq2ms18
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular14
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular14
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular13
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common plural13
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 2nd person masculine singular11
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 76
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 31
  • HVqp3ms · 30
  • Hc/Vqq1cs · 23
  • HR/Vqcc · 22
  • HVqi3ms · 21
  • Hc/Vqq2ms · 18
  • HVqi1cs · 14
  • HVqv2ms · 14
  • HVqp1cs · 13
  • HVqp3cp · 13
  • HVqi2ms · 11

The first 500 of 584, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Isaiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis47 occurrences
Exodus50 occurrences
Leviticus11 occurrences
Numbers20 occurrences
Deuteronomy24 occurrences
Joshua12 occurrences
Judges21 occurrences
Ruth1 occurrence
1 Samuel35 occurrences
2 Samuel21 occurrences
1 Kings25 occurrences
2 Kings26 occurrences
1 Chronicles7 occurrences
2 Chronicles10 occurrences
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job40 occurrences
Psalms36 occurrences
Proverbs3 occurrences
Song of Solomon3 occurrences
Isaiah54 occurrences
Jeremiah37 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Ezekiel13 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled שׂוּם

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).