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Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H7761

שׂוּם

sumsoom

to set: make

26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: sûwm

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7761is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7761

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

The King James renders it: [phrase] command, give, lay, make, [phrase] name, [phrase] regard, set.

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

sum is rendered "to set: make". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Sixteen of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:19I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.

Ezra 4:19שִׂ֣ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Sixteen of the word's twenty-six uses are in Ezra.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it is made6
  • he made4
  • it was made3
  • did he make2
  • and it was set1
  • being set1
  • he had made him1
  • he has set1
  • he set1
  • I make1
  • it will be made1
  • make1

and 3 more, 26 uses in all

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.

שׂוּםsumto set: makeUses584
שׂוּשׂsusto rejoiceUses27
שׂוּרsurto reignUses3
שׂוּךְsukto hedgeUses2
שׂוּגsugto turn backUses1
שׂוּגsugto growUses1
שׂוּטsutto swerveUses1
שׂוּרsurto sawUses1
שׂוּחַsuachto meditateUses1
שׂוּכָתִיSukathiSucathitesUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 26, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • שִׂ֣ים9
  • שָׂ֨ם3
  • שָׂ֣ם3
  • וְשֻׂמַ֖ת1
  • יִתְּשָֽׂם׃1
  • יִתְּשָׂמֽוּן׃1
  • מִתְּשָׂ֣ם1
  • שִׂ֣ימוּ1
  • שָׂ֥ם1
  • שָׂם־1
  • שָׂמֵֽהּ׃1
  • שָׂ֨מֽוּ1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular17AVQp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AC/VQp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1AVqp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1AVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqp3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1AVqp3ms/Sp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1AVqv2mp
  • verb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVui3mp
  • verb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVui3ms
  • verb · hothpaal, participle · masculine singular1AVurmsa

Ezra

sixteen uses
  • I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.

    Ezra 4:19

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was made
  • Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.

    Ezra 4:21

    • שִׂ֣ימוּsimuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make
    • יִתְּשָֽׂם׃yitesamverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be made
  • At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

    Ezra 5:3

    • שָׂ֨םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: did he make
  • Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.

    Ezra 5:8

    • מִתְּשָׂ֣םmitesamverb · hothpaal, participle · masculine singulartagged: being set
  • So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

    Ezra 5:9

    • שָׂ֨םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: did he make
  • In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

    Ezra 5:13

    • שָׂ֣םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
  • He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor

    Ezra 5:14

    • שָׂמֵֽהּ׃samehverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he had made him
  • Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

    Ezra 5:17

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was made
  • Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.

    Ezra 6:1

    • שָׂ֣םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
  • In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

    Ezra 6:3

    • שָׂ֣םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
  • I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

    Ezra 6:8

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is made
  • I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

    Ezra 6:11

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is made
  • May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.

    Ezra 6:12

    • שָׂ֣מֶתsametverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I make
  • I hereby decree that any volunteers among the Israelites in my kingdom, including the priests and Levites, may go up with you to Jerusalem.

    Ezra 7:13

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is made
  • I, King Artaxerxes, decree to all the treasurers west of the Euphrates: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it must be provided promptly,

    Ezra 7:21

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is made

Daniel

ten uses
  • The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.

    Daniel 2:5

    • יִתְּשָׂמֽוּן׃yitesamunverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be made
  • You, O king, have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the golden statue,

    Daniel 3:10

    • שָׂ֣מְתָּsametaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you made
  • But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”

    Daniel 3:12

    • שָׂ֨מֽוּsamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have set
  • Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

    Daniel 3:29

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is made
  • So I issued a decree that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.

    Daniel 4:6

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was made
  • did this because Daniel, the one he named Belteshazzar, was found to have an extraordinary spirit, as well as knowledge, understanding, and the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Summon Daniel, therefore, and he will give you the interpretation.”

    Daniel 5:12

    • שָׂם־som-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
  • Then they told the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed. He still makes his petition three times a day.”

    Daniel 6:13

    • שָׂ֨םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has set
  • As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.

    Daniel 6:14

    • שָׂ֥םsamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he set
  • A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that nothing concerning Daniel could be changed.

    Daniel 6:17

    • וְשֻׂמַ֖תvesumatconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and it was set
  • I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.

    Daniel 6:26

    • שִׂ֣יםsimverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is made

The letters

Gematria 346· 906 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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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