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Joshua 8:13
“And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.” (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
- יָּשִׂ֨ימוּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.