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Strong's #7760: suwm (pronounced soom)

or siym {seem}; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically):--X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׂ / ּׂ

śûm / śı̂ym

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) (figuratively)

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 580 times:

2 Chronicles 6:11: "And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 6:20: "the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto"
2 Chronicles 12:13: "had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name"
2 Chronicles 18:26: "Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed"
2 Chronicles 23:15: " So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's"
2 Chronicles 23:18: "Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites,"
2 Chronicles 33:7: " And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God,"
2 Chronicles 33:7: "before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:"
2 Chronicles 33:14: "and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all"
Ezra 8:17: "Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say"
Ezra 10:44: "and some of them had wives by whom they had children."
Nehemiah 8:8: "in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."
Nehemiah 9:7: "and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;"
Esther 2:17: "and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown"
Esther 3:1: "of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above"
Esther 8:2: "from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over"
Esther 10:1: "And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea."
Job 1:8: "said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,"
Job 1:17: "also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon"
Job 2:3: "said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,"
Job 4:18: "he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:"
Job 4:20: "to evening: they perish forever without any regarding"
Job 5:8: "God, and unto God would I commit my cause:"
Job 5:11: " To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety."
Job 7:12: "or a whale, that thou settest a watch over"
Job 7:20: "unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to"
Job 13:14: "Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?"
Job 13:27: " Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon"
Job 17:3: " Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands"
Job 17:12: " They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness."
Job 18:2: "How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak."
Job 19:8: "my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths."
Job 20:4: "old, since man was placed upon earth,"
Job 21:5: "Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth."
Job 22:22: "I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart."
Job 23:6: "No; but he would put"
Job 24:12: "and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly"
Job 24:15: "No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face."
Job 24:25: "so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing"
Job 28:3: " He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones"
Job 29:9: "The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth."
Job 31:24: "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;"
Job 33:11: " He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths."
Job 34:13: "hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?"
Job 34:14: "If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;"
Job 34:23: "For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment"
Job 36:13: "But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth"
Job 37:15: "Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?"
Job 38:5: "Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched"
Job 38:9: " When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band"









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