Strong's Hebrew · H7760
H7760 sûwm
שׂוּם
soom
to set
sûwm appears 582 times in Scripture, including Genesis 4:15 and Genesis 9:23. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
In the King James Version
× 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, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.
Derivation
or שִׂים; a primitive root;
Appears 582 times in Scripture
“Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.”
“When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.”
“He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.””
“But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.””
“Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.””
““Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.”
“I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.”
“Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.”
“Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.”
“But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
