# H7760 שׂוּם

שׂוּם (sûwm), Strong’s H7760: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) KJV: [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast…

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*sûwm* — to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

KJV: [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge…

Occurs 582 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שׂוּם, שִׂים 582 vb. put, place, set
- Qal
- a put, set, in a place
- b put something upon
- c put, lay, set
- d put, c. בֵּין
- 2 set, direct
- a set, ordain, in a place
- b set, establish a law, statute
- c set, found a nation
- d set, appoint (as ruler, official)
- e set, constitute, make
- f set, determine, fix, bounds
- a set, station, at a post
- b put in position, sacred bread, sword, staves, bars
- c set up altars
- d = plant, wheat
- e set, fix (countenance)
- a make a thing, or pers. (acc.), for, transform into
- b make, constitute
- c work, bring to pass
- d appoint, give
- e set, fix (countenance)
- Hiph. I will make him for a sign
- Hoph. there was set before him
- שׂוּמָה n. f
- שׂוּמָה perhaps n. f. token of unluckiness, scowl;—2 S 13:32

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=8) — The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- [Genesis 4:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=15) — The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” The LORD appointed a…
- [Genesis 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=16) — You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its…
- [Genesis 9:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=23) — Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of…
- [Genesis 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=16) — I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your…
- [Genesis 21:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=13) — I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
- [Genesis 21:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=14) — Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…
- [Genesis 21:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=18) — Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
- [Genesis 22:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=6) — Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife…
- [Genesis 22:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=9) — They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…