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Strong's #8033 - שָׁם
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- there, thither
- there
- thither (after verbs of motion)
- from there, thence
- then (as an adverb of time)
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1473) ms (סהמ ShM) AC: Breathe CO: Breath AB: Desolate: The wind, or breath, of someone or something is its character.
A) ms (סהמ ShM) AC: ? CO: Breath AB: Desolate: Hebrew names are words given to describe character.
Nm) ms (סהמ ShM) - I. Breath:The breath of a man is character, what makes one what he is. The name of an individual is more than an identifier but descriptive of his character or breath. II. There:Used to identify another place. [Hebrew and Aramaic] III. Sky:The place of the winds. [Hebrew and Aramaic; Only used in the masculine plural form, mimsor nimsin Aramaic] IV. Aroma: A sweet aroma that is carried on the wind or breath. [df: Mo] KJV (1365): name, renown, fame, famous, heaven, air, sweet, there - Strongs: H5561 (סַם), H8033 (שָׁם), H8034 (שֵׁם), H8036 (שֻׁם), H8064 (שָׁמֶה), H8065 (שְׁמַיִן), H8536 (תַּמָּה)
Nf1 ) ems (סהמה ShMH) - Desolate: A wind blowing over the land pulls the moisture out of the ground drying it up, making a place of ruin or desert. KJV (39): astonishment, desolation, desolate, waste, wonderful - Strongs: H8047 (שַׁמָּה)
kf1) emsm (מסהמה MShMH) - Desolate: A wind blowing over the land pulls the moisture out of the ground drying it up, making a place of ruin or desert. KJV (7): desolate, astonishment - Strongs: H4923 (מְשַׁמָּה)
nmm) nmsa (אסהמנ AShMN) - Desolate: A wind blowing over the land pulls the moisture out of the ground drying it up, making a place of ruin or desert. KJV (1): desolate - Strongs: H820 (אַשְׁמָן)
B) mms (סהממ ShMM) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Desolate: A wind blowing over the land pulls the moisture out of the ground drying it up, making a place of ruin or desert. One in horror or in astonishment is one dried up in the inside.
V) mms (סהממ ShMM) - Desolate: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (93): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Hophal, Piel) desolate, astonish, waste, destroy, wonder, amaze - Strongs: H8074 (שָׁמֵם), H8075 (שְׁמַם)
Nf1) emms (סהממה ShMMH) - Desolate: KJV (58): desolate, waste - Strongs: H8077 (שִׁמָמָה)
ejm) nfmmis (סהיממונ ShYMMWN) - Desolation: KJV (2): astonishment - Strongs: H8078 (שִׁמָּמוֹן)
C) msa (אסהמ AShM) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Guilt: One with a character of wrongdoing.
V) msa (אסהמ AShM) - Guilt: KJV (35): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) guilty, desolate, offend, trespass, destroy, faulty, offence - Strongs: H816 (אָשֵׁם)
Nm) msa (אסהמ AShM) - Guilt: KJV (49): trespass, sin, guiltiness - Strongs: H817 (אָשָׁם), H818 (אָשֵׁם)
Nf1) emsa (אסהמה AShMH) - Guilt: KJV (19): trespass, sin, offend - Strongs: H819 (אַשְׁמָה)
G) mes (סההמ ShHM) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?: [Unknown meaning;]
Nm) mes (סההמ ShHM) - Shoham: An unknown stone. KJV (11): onyx - Strongs: H7718 (שֹׁהַם)
J) mfs (סהומ ShWM) AC: Smell CO: Garlic AB: ?: A sense of smell from breathing.
Nm) mfs (סהומ ShWM) - Garlic: From its strong odor. KJV (1): garlick - Strongs: H7762 (שׁוּמִים)
L) msi (יסהמ YShM) AC: ? CO: Desert AB: Desolate: A wind blowing over the land pulls the moisture out of the ground drying it up, making a place of ruin or desert.
V) msi (יסהמ YShM) - Desolate: KJV (4): (vf: Paal) desolate - Strongs: H3456 (יָשַׁם)
bf1) emisi (יסהימה YShYMH) - Desolate: KJV (1): seize - Strongs: H3451 (יְשִׁימָה)
bjm) nfmisi (יסהימונ YShYMWN) - Desert: A desolate place. KJV (13): desert, wilderness, solitary - Strongs: H3452 (יְשִׁימוֹן)
Adopted Roots:
- A2090 Msc (Rain, Rain)
- A2443 Msn (Pant, Breath)
- A2444 Psn (Blow, Twilight)
- A2848 Dms (Destroy)
- A2849 Ums (Shake)
- A2850 Nms (Oil)
- A2851 Oms (Hear, Report, Obedience)
- A2854 Sms (Sun)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1. a. there Genesis 2:8,12; Genesis 11:2,7,31 + often; placed early in sentence for emphasis, Micah 4:10 שָׁם תִּנָּצֵ֑לִי, Nahum 3:15; Ezekiel 32:22,24; Psalm 104:26 +, וְשָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 41:12; Exodus 15:27; Numbers 13:22,33 +, שָׁם ֗֗֗ וְשָׁם Exodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 12:14; Isaiah 27:10; Job 3:17 +, וְהִנֵּה שָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 29:2, כִּי שָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 11:9; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 35:7; 2 Samuel 1:21; 2 Samuel 15:21 +, אַךְ שָׁם ֗֗֗ Isaiah 34:14,15, גַּם שָׁם ֗֗֗ Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 57:7; Psalm 139:10; resuming a preceding 'where,' Job 39:30 בַּאֲשֶׁר חֲלָלִים שָׁם הוּא, Judges 5:27; Jeremiah 22:12; Ecclesiastes 11:3, compare Ecclesiastes 1:7. Repeated, שָׁם ֗֗֗ שָׁם here ... there Isaiah 28:10,13. In poetry, pointing to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination, Psalm 14:5 שׁם פחדו פחד there feared they a fear! Psalm 36:13, compare Psalm 48:7; Psalm 66:6; Psalm 132:17; Hosea 6:7; Zephaniah 1:14. — Habakkuk 3:4 read probably (We Now) שָׂם the flashes at his side made he the hiding of his power; Ecclesiastes 3:17 שָׁם = with God, in the Divine plan or scheme: but read perhaps שָׂם Hi De and others
b. preceded by the rel., אֲשֶׁר שָׁם where, Genesis 2:11; Exodus 20:21; 1 Samuel 9:10 +, usually with one or more words between, Genesis 13:3,14; Genesis 19:27; Exodus 29:42; 2 Samuel 11:16; 2 Kings 23:27 + often; after בַּאֲשֶׁר, בַּאֲשֶׁר הוּא שָׁם Genesis 21:17. With אשׁר omitted (the relative being indicated by construct, Ges§ 130c, d) Ezekiel 39:11 מְקוֺם שָׁם קֶבֶר׳בְּיִשְׂר a place where a grave (may be) in Israel, but ᵐ5ᵑ7 Co Or and others read שֵׁם a place of renown.
2 thither, after verbs of motion ( = שָׁ֫מָּה, see
3), Deuteronomy 1:37 לֹא תָבאֹ שָׁם, Judges 19:15; Judges 21:10; 1 Samuel 2:14; 1 Samuel 9:6 and elsewhere; אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ שָׁם whither, 1 Kings 18:10; 1 Kings 21:18; 2 Kings 1:4,6,16; Isaiah 20:6, more often in Jeremiah , Ezekiel , as Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 22:27; Jeremiah 23:3,8; Jeremiah 45:5 +, Ezekiel 4:13; Ezekiel 12:16; Ezekiel 36:20,22 +; so שֶׁשָּׁם Psalm 122:4.
3 withה locative, שָׁ֫מָּה ( sh¹mm¹h):
a. after verbs of motion, thither, Genesis 19:20 לָנוּס שָׁ֫מָּה to flee thither, Genesis 19:22; Genesis 20:13; Genesis 24:6; Genesis 29:3; Deuteronomy 1:38 + often; = into it, therein (of a basket, pit, etc.), Exodus 16:33 וְתֶןשָֿׁ֫מָּה מְלֹא הָעֹמֶר, Exodus 21:33 וְנָפַלשָׁמָּה, Exodus 30:18; Judges 8:25; 2 Kings 12:10; pregnantly, after a verb implying motion, as to bury, Genesis 23:13 וְאֶקְבְּרָה אֶתמֵֿתִי שָׁ֫מָּה, Genesis 25:10; Genesis 49:31; Genesis 50:5 (all P), נוֺעַד to meet Exodus 29:42,43; Exodus 30:6,36; Numbers 17:19 (all P), Joshua 2:16; Joshua 7:3; Jeremiah 13:7; Joel 4:7, perhaps Song of Solomon 8:5 (? c).
b.אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ שָׁ֫מָּה whither Genesis 20:13; Numbers 33:54; Deuteronomy 4:5,14 + often; where 2 Kings 23:8; 1 Chronicles 4:41.
c. more rarely, i. q. שָׁם there, Genesis 43:30 וַיֵּבְךְ שָׁ֫מָּה, Joshua 2:1; Judges 16:27; 2 Kings 4:11; 2 Kings 9:16; Hosea 2:17; Isaiah 22:18; Isaiah 34:15; Isaiah 65:9; Jeremiah 18:2; Jeremiah 27:22; Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 32:29,30 ( Ezekiel 32:22; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:26 שָׁם), Ezekiel 48:35 שָׁ֫מָּה׳י, Psalm 76:4; Psalm 122:5; Ecclesiastes 3:16.
4 מִשָּׁם from there, thence:
a. often after verbs of departing, taking, etc., Genesis 2:10; Genesis 11:8,9; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 18:16; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 42:2, etc., Numbers 13:23; Numbers 21:12; Numbers 22:41 וַיַּרְא מִשָּׁם, Deuteronomy 4:29 וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם, Deuteronomy 30:4; Jeremiah 37:12; Hosea 2:17; Amos 9:2,3,4; Job 39:29 +. Peculiarly, Genesis 49:24 ׳מִשָּׁם רֹעֶה אֶבֶן יִשְׂר Ges De RVm from there [from heaven], (from) the Shepherd (׳י), the Stone (Rock) of Israel, Ew Di Sta from there (where is) the Shepherd of (רֹעֵה) the (Bethel-)stone of Israel; but both forced: text dubious; Gunk by the name (מִשֵּׁם; so ᵑ6) of the Shepherd, etc. (as Ew Di).
b.אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ מִשָּׁם whence Genesis 24:5; Numbers 23:13 +.
c. expressing origin, Genesis 3:23 the ground אֲשֶׁר לֻקַּחמִשָּׁם, Genesis 10:14 whence (= from whom) came forth the Philistines, Judges 19:18 מִשָּׁם אָנֹכִי, 1 Samuel 10:12 אִישׁ מִשָּׁם, Isaiah 65:20.
d. of the mass, from which something is taken or made, Genesis 27:9; Genesis 30:32 (of צאֹן), Leviticus 2:2 ׳וְקָמַץ מִשָּׁם זגו (from the meal, etc., of a מנחה), 1 Kings 17:13 אַךְ עֲשִׁי לִי מִשָּׁם עֻגָה קְטַנָּה i.e. from the meal and oil, 2 Kings 7:2,19 וּמִשָּׁם לֹא תאֵֹכל׃, Ezekiel 5:3.
שָׁם adv., there (Arab. ثَمَّ and of time ثُمَّ; Chald. תָּם; Syriac ܬܳܡܰܢ. A trace of another form שֹׁם = ثُمَّ is found in the pr.n. גֵּרְשֹׁם Exodus 2:22, as to which see p. 182, A. In the Indo-Germanic languages there answer to this, Gr. τῆμος, tunc; Lat. tum (tunc; compare num, nunc); Anglosax. thoeœnne; whence the English then; Germ. dann; all of which are applied to time; see No. 2). It is used
(1) pr. of place,
(a) i.q. eo loco, ἐκεῖ. Genesis 2:8, 12 11:2, 31 Genesis 11:31, 12:7, Genesis 12:8, 10 Genesis 12:10, 13:4, 18 Genesis 13:18 and so very often. When preceded by a relative, אֲשֶׁר שָׁם where, Exodus 20:18 commonly with one or more words between, שָׁם-אֲשֶׁר Genesis 13:3; 2 Samuel 15:21. שָׁם-שָׁם here, there, Isaiah 28:10.
(b) after verbs of motion, i.q. שָׁמָּה thither (like ἐκεῖ for ἐκεῖσε), 1 Samuel 2:14; 2 Kings 19:32 whence שָׁם-אֲשֶׁר whither, 1 Kings 18:10; Jeremiah 19:14.
(2) used of time, at that time, then (like the Gr. ἐκεῖ, Lat. ibi, illico, compare the above remarks on the traces of this word in other languages), Psalms 14:5, 132:17 Judges 5:11.
(3) i.q. therein, in that thing, Hosea 6:7, “they have transgressed the covenant, שָׁם בָּֽגְדוּ בִי therein (darin, in diefem Stücke) they have rebelled against me.”
With ה parag. שָׁ֫מָּה (read shammah)
(a) thither, Genesis 19:20, 23:13 Isaiah 34:15 (where we must render, “thither shall she place her nest,” etc., comp. Psalms 122:5; Exodus 29:42).
(b) i.q. שָׁם there (so that -ָה has a mere demonstrative power), Jeremiah 18:2. After a relative, אֲשֶׁר שָׁ֫מָּה whither, Genesis 20:13 rarely where, 2 Kings 23:8.
With pref. מִשָּׁם thence
(1) of place, Genesis 2:10, 11:8, Genesis 11:9; 1 Samuel 4:4. מִשָּׁם-אֲשֶׁר whence, Deuteronomy 9:28.
(2) used of time, Hosea 2:17.
(3) i.q. from that thing, whence, like the Lat. inde (unde), Genesis 3:23, “that he might till the ground אֲשֶׁר לֻקַּה מִשָּׁם whence (out of which) he had been taken;” 1 Kings 17:13, עֲשִׂי לִי מִשָּׁם עֻגָּה “make me thence (out of that meal) a cake;” Ezra 5:3. Pleonastically, Genesis 49:24. מִשָּׁם רֹעֶה אֶבֶן יִשְׂרָאֵל “from thence (dorther), from the shepherd, the stone of Israel (comes),” etc.