שׂוּם sûwm — to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Translated in the KJV as × any wise, appoint, bring, call, care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine.
or שִׂים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically).
sûwm in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 154Perfect (qatal) 112Imperfect (yiqtol) 110Sequential perfect (weqatal) 73Imperative 57Infinitive construct 40Participle (active) 15Jussive 13Participle (passive) 3Cohortative 3Infinitive absolute 3
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Hoph'al
Wayyiqtol 1
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›