Know the Word.

Hebrew word

sûwm

soom

שׂוּם

What it means

to put

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

Where it comes from

or שִׂים; a primitive root

How the King James translates it

  • put147
  • set128
  • make65
  • made49
  • laid35
  • lay25
  • appoint11
  • maketh8

Every place it appears 576

Ruth3:3
Nehemiah8:89:7
Song of Solomon1:66:128:6
Lamentations3:113:45
Joel1:7
Obadiah1:41:7
Nahum1:143:6
Habakkuk1:122:93:19
Zephaniah2:133:19
Malachi1:32:2