וְ/לָ/שׂ֣וּם

𐤅/𐤋/𐤔𐤅𐤌

velasum

and to appoint

or שִׂים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [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.

H7760

1 Samuel 8:12 · Word #1

Lexicon H7760

Lemmaשׂוּם
Lemma (Paleo)𐤔𐤅𐤌
Transliterationsûwm
Strong'sH7760
In-contextand to appoint

Morphology HC/R/Vqc All morphology codes

Part of Speech V — Verb — An action or state
Binyan q — Qal — Simple active
Conjugation c — Infinitive Construct — The verbal noun ("to ...")

SIBI-P1 H7760-78

and to set/place

Morphological NotesConjunction וְ + preposition לְ + Qal infinitive construct of שׂום; no gender, number, or person marked; expresses purpose or result.
Rendering RationaleThe root שׂום conveys the basic action of putting or setting something in place. The form is a Qal infinitive construct with prefixed conjunction וְ and preposition לְ, meaning "and to set/place," preserving the simple active sense of the Qal stem and the infinitival force.

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Words from Root שׂום (placing, setting, appointing, positioning, establishing)

SILEX Code Transliteration SIBI-P1
H7760-01 asim I will set
H7760-02 asimah let me set
H7760-03 asimekha I will set you

Word Usage (586 occurrences of H7760)

Location Form Transliteration Meaning
Genesis 2:8 וַ/יָּ֣שֶׂם vayasem and placed
Genesis 4:15 וַ/יָּ֨שֶׂם vayasem and set
Genesis 6:16 תָּשִׂ֑ים tasim you shall set