שׂוּם
sûwm · soom
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Lexicon
Derivation: or שִׂים; a primitive root;
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [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.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to fasten and establish › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To consume, to destroy that works to fasten and establish of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שׂוּם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
585 occurrences · 585 OT · 0 NT · 299 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and put44 · 21%
- set28 · 13%
- put17 · 8%
- and he put10 · 5%
- and set10 · 5%
- and i will make9 · 4%
- and laid9 · 4%
- to put7 · 3%
- and thou shalt put7 · 3%
- and made7 · 3%
- and he set6 · 3%
- made6 · 3%
- make6 · 3%
- appointed5 · 2%
- and lay5 · 2%
- and make5 · 2%
- to make5 · 2%
- he put4 · 2%
- consider4 · 2%
- and putteth3 · 1%
- i will set3 · 1%
- and appoint3 · 1%
- and shall put3 · 1%
- and they put3 · 1%
- will i make3 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.