Lexical Definition

‎שׂוּם‎ sûwm (soom) to set: make ^A:V
(Aramaic) corresponding to ‎שׂוּם‎

[phrase] command, give, lay, make, [phrase] name, [phrase] regard, set.

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

1) to set, make, appoint
1a) (P'al)
1a1) to make, make decree, setout (decree)
1a2) to make, appoint
1a3) to set, fix
1b) (Ithp'al) to be made, be set, be laid

See Greek: διαρπάζω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שׂוּם‎], ‎שׂים‎ verb set, make (see Biblical Hebrew; for Persian influence on usage compare Scheft⁶⁵); —

Pe`al Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎שָׂם‎ Ezra 5:3 +, suffix ‎שָׂמֵהּ‎ Ezra 5:14 2 masculine singular, ‎שַׂ֫מְתָּ‎ Dan 3:10 1 singular ‎שָׂ֫מֶת טְעֵם‎ Ezra 6:12 3 masculine plural ‎שָׂמוּ‎ Dan 3:12 Imperative masculine plural ‎שִׂ֫ימוּ‎ Ezra 4:21 —

1. make, accusative ‎טְעֵם‎ = make decree Dan 3:10; Ezra 6:1; Ezra 6:12 + verb finite vEzra 6:8, + infinitive Ezra 4:21; Ezra 5:13 and (with ‎ל‎ person) vEzra 5:3 vEzra 5:9.

2. make, appoint, one's name Dan 5:12 (2 accusative), one to office Ezra 5:14 (2 accusative).

3. set, fix, accusative ‎בָּל‎ mind, Dan 6:15* (c. infinitive); accusative ‎טְעֵם‎ Dan 3:12; Dan 6:14* pay due regard (‎טְעֵם‎) to (‎עַל‎ person). Pe`il 3 masculine singular ‎מִנִּי שִׂים טְעֵם‎ Ezra 4:19, from me a decree is made, so Ezra 5:17; Ezra 6:8; Ezra 6:11; Ezra 7:13; Ezra 7:21; Dan 3:29; Dan 4:3*; Dan 6:27* literal 3 feminine singular ‎שֻׂמַת‎ (read probably ‎שִׂימַת‎ K<sup>§ 45, Beisp. 1.</sup> d)) Dan 6:18* (of stone, ‎עַל‎ local). Hithpe`el be made: Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יִתְּשָׂם‎ Ezra 4:24 (of decree, ‎סטְעֵס‎ with ‎מִן‎ agent.); 3 masculine plural ‎יִתְּשָׂמוּן‎ Dan 2:5 subject of thing + noun predicate be made into; Participle Ezra 5:8 literally be set, laid, of wood, ‎ב‎ of wall.

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