The meaning of “שׂוּם”
Understanding sûwm reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
or שִׂים sîym (seem); a primitive root [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, c...
שׂוּם
or שִׂים sîym (seem); a primitive root [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. - to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) 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
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 31:34 | “Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.” Word: שׂוּם (sûwm) | |
| Ruth 3:3 | “Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.” Word: שׂוּם (sûwm) | |
| Ezra 10:44 | “All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. ” Word: שׂוּם (sûwm) | |
| Isaiah 44:7 | “And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.” Word: שׂוּם (sûwm) | |
| Amos 8:10 | “And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.” Word: שׂוּם (sûwm) |
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