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Haggai 2:18

“Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.” (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
  • שִׂימוּ — verb Qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, plural
Code HVqv2mp
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.

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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.