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2 Chronicles 33:7

“And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שׂוּםsûwm · soom
H7760 · Hebrew

Definition: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Derivation: or שִׂים; a primitive root;
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.
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יָּ֕שֶׂם — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage: Occurs 586 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:8 Genesis 4:15 Genesis 6:16 Genesis 9:23 Genesis 13:16

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שׂוּם here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.