Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5561
סַם
samsam
spice
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5561is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5561
an aroma
The King James renders it: sweet (spice).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sam is rendered "spice". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 25:6olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
Exodus 25:6הַסַּמִּֽים׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's sixteen uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the perfumes9
- perfumes5
- spices2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַסַּמִּֽים׃3
- הַסַּמִּ֖ים2
- הַסַּמִּ֑ים2
- סַמִּ֑ים2
- סַמִּ֖ים2
- סַמִּים֩2
- הַסַּמִּים֙1
- הַסַּמִּ֔ים1
- סַמִּ֗ים1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural9HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural7HNcmpa
Exodus
eleven uses
olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
- הַסַּמִּֽים׃hasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
- סַמִּ֑יםsamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: perfumes
The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,
- סַמִּ֗יםsamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: spices
- סַמִּ֖יםsamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: spices
in addition to the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them according to all that I have commanded you.”
- הַסַּמִּ֖יםhasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
- הַסַּמִּֽים׃hasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
- הַסַּמִּ֑יםhasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
as well as spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
- הַסַּמִּֽים׃hasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
- הַסַּמִּ֖יםhasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;
- הַסַּמִּ֑יםhasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- סַמִּ֑יםsamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: perfumes
Leviticus
two uses
The priest must then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. And he is to pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- הַסַּמִּים֙hasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- סַמִּ֖יםsamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: perfumes
Numbers
one use
Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including the holy objects and their utensils.”
- הַסַּמִּ֔יםhasamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the perfumes
2 Chronicles
two uses
Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- סַמִּים֩samimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: perfumes
Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
- סַמִּים֩samimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: perfumes
The letters
Gematria 100· 660 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.