Strong's Hebrew · H5561

H5561 çam

סַם

sam

sweet (spice).

When çam is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

an aroma

Derivation

from an unused root meaning to smell sweet;

Appears 16 times in Scripture

Exodus 30:7

And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.

Exodus 39:38

the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

Exodus 35:8

olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

Exodus 37:29

He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

Exodus 31:11

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.”

Exodus 35:28

as well as spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

Exodus 25:6

olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

Exodus 30:34

The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

Leviticus 4:7

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.

When çam is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what çam means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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