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Daniel 1:8
“But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- יָּ֤שֶׂם — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 586 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:8Genesis 4:15Genesis 6:16Genesis 9:23Genesis 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.
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.