שִׁית
shîyth · sheeth
to place (in a very wide application)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to place (in a very wide application)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, [idiom] look, make, mark, put (on), [phrase] regard, set, shew, be stayed, [idiom] take.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the hand that works › the mark, the covenant sign
To consume, to destroy of the hand that works of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁית 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
83 occurrences · 83 OT · 0 NT · 74 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and laid4 · 10%
- make4 · 10%
- set3 · 8%
- and make2 · 5%
- then, and let me alone2 · 5%
- i will set2 · 5%
- put2 · 5%
- and set2 · 5%
- they have set2 · 5%
- shall put1 · 3%
- but he set1 · 3%
- by themselves, and put1 · 3%
- and he put1 · 3%
- laid1 · 3%
- did put1 · 3%
- and i will set1 · 3%
- whatsoever is laid1 · 3%
- if there be laid1 · 3%
- will lay1 · 3%
- that i might shew1 · 3%
- neither did he set1 · 3%
- i beseech thee, lay1 · 3%
- said she, hath appointed1 · 3%
- and he hath set1 · 3%
- and i will put1 · 3%
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.