שׂוּם
sûwm · soom
{to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)}
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) corresponding to H7760 (שׂוּם)
{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: [phrase] command, give, lay, make, [phrase] name, [phrase] regard, set.
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
26 occurrences · 26 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- made4 · 15%
- make4 · 15%
- commanded2 · 8%
- give1 · 4%
- shall be given1 · 4%
- hath commanded1 · 4%
- is laid1 · 4%
- whom he had made1 · 4%
- was made1 · 4%
- i have made1 · 4%
- have made1 · 4%
- do make1 · 4%
- shall be made1 · 4%
- hast made1 · 4%
- have1 · 4%
- named1 · 4%
- regardeth1 · 4%
- with himself, and set1 · 4%
- and laid1 · 4%
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.