To appoint
סָמַןStrong’s H5567saman (sa-man)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Saman is the Hebrew word usually translated “appointed”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?”
Meaning
- To mark off(Niphal) appointed, determined (participle)
How it's translated
- an appointed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
סָמַן saman · to appoint
1) to mark off 1a) (Niphal) appointed, determined (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “appointed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APPOINT'ED, participle passive
- Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted.
- Furnished; equipped with things necessary; as, a ship or an army is well appointed
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.