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To set

שׂוּםStrong’s H7760

sum

Appears in 551 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sum is the Hebrew word usually translated “put”, “set” and “make”. It appears in 551 verses of the Old Testament.

“Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.”
Daniel 1:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. To put, place, set, appoint, make(Qal) · (Hiphil) to set or make for a sign · (Hophal) to be set
  2. Token of unluckiness, scowl
How it's translated
  • and he put 46
  • set 22
  • and you will put 19
  • and they put 18
  • put 17
  • to put 13
  • and i will make 12
  • i will make 11

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 50
  • Exodus 47
  • Genesis 45
  • Job 40
  • Ezekiel 39
  • Psalms 36

37 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 551 verses, by book
Ruth 1
3:3
Ezra 2
8:1710:44
Nehemiah 2
8:89:7
Proverbs 3
8:2923:230:26
Song of Solomon 3
1:66:128:6
Lamentations 2
3:113:45
Joel 1
1:7
Obadiah 2
1:41:7
Nahum 2
1:143:6
Habakkuk 3
1:122:93:19
Zephaniah 2
2:133:19
Malachi 2
1:32:2
Hebrew dictionary

שׂוּם sum · to set

: make/establish 1) to put, place, set, appoint, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to put, set, lay, put or lay upon, lay (violent) hands on 1a2) to set, direct, direct toward 1a2a) to extend (compassion) (fig) 1a3) to set, ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix 1a4) to set, station, put, set in place, plant, fix 1a5) to make, make for, transform into, constitute, fashion, work, bring to pass, appoint, give 1b) (Hiphil) to set or make for a sign 1c) (Hophal) to be set

שׂוּמָה sumah · fate

token of unluckiness, scowl

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “set” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SET, verb transitive

preterit tense participle passive set. [Latin sedo; to compose, as a book, to dispose or put in order, to establish, found or institute, to possess, to cease; Latin sedo, sedeo and sido, coinciding with sit, but all of one family. From the Norman orthography of this word, we have assess, assise. See Assess. Heb. Ch. to set to place.]

  1. To put or place; to fix or cause to rest in a standing posture.
  2. To put or place in its proper or natural posture.
  3. To put, place or fix in any situation.“I do set my bow in the cloud” Genesis 9:13
  4. To put into any condition or state.“I am come to set a man at variance against his father” Matthew 10:35
All definitions and other forms of “set”
  1. To put; to fix; to attach to.“The Lord set a mark upon Cain” Genesis 4:15
  2. To fix; to render motionless; as, the eyes are set, the jaws are set.
  3. To put or fix, as a price.
  4. To fix; to state by some rule.
  5. To regulate or adjust; as, to set a timepiece by the sun.
  6. To fit to music; to adapt with notes; as, to set the words of a psalm to music.
  7. To pitch; to begin to sing in public.
  8. To plant, as a shrub, tree or vegetable.
  9. To variegate, intersperse or adorn with something fixed; to stud; as, to set any thing with diamonds or pearls.
  10. To return to its proper place or state; to replace; to reduce from dislocated or fractured state; as, to set a bone or a leg.
  11. To fix; to place; as the heart or affections.“Set your affections on things above” Colossians 3:2
  12. To fix firmly; to predetermine.“The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” Ecclesiastes 8:11
  13. To fix by appointment; to appoint; to assign; as, to set a time for meeting; to set an hour or day.
  14. To place or station; to appoint to a particular duty.
  15. To stake at play. [Little used.]
  16. To offer a wager at dice to another. [Little used.]
  17. To fix in metal.
  18. To fix; to cause to stop; to obstruct; as, to set a coach in the mire.
  19. To embarrass; to perplex.
  20. To put in good order; to fix for use; to bring to a fine edge; as, to set a razor.
  21. To loose and extend; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
  22. To point out without noise or disturbance; as, a dog sets birds.
  23. To oppose.
  24. To prepare with runnet for cheese; as, to set milk.
  25. To dim; to darken or extinguish.“Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age” 1 Kings 14:4“The king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day” Ezekiel 24:2
  26. To reject.
  27. To annul; to vacate.
  28. To esteem; to regard; to value. [In this sense, set is pronounced with more emphasis than by.]
  29. To enter in writing; to register.
  30. To explain or relate in writing.
  31. To fix on a resolve. [Little used.]
  32. To fix; to establish; to ordain.
  33. To publish; to promulgate; to make appear.
  34. To send out; to prepare and send.
  35. To display; to exhibit; to present to view; to show.
  36. To give a pompus or flattering description of; to eulogize; to recommend; as, to set off a character.
  37. To place against as an equivalent; as, to set off one man's services against another's.
  38. To separate or assign for a particular purpose; as, to set off a portion of an estate.
  39. To assault or attack; seldom used transitively, but the passive form is often used.
  40. To employ, as in a task.
  41. To fix the attention; to determine to any thing withsettled purpose.
  42. To publish. [Not elegant nor common.]
  43. To mark by boundaries or distinctions of space.
  44. To adorn; to embellish.
  45. To raise, equip and send forth; to furnish.
  46. To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
  47. To show; to prove.
  48. In law, to recite; to state at large.
  49. To begin a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school.
  50. To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade.
  51. To raise; to exalt; to put in power; as, to set up the throne of David over Israel.
  52. To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
  53. To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
  54. To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine.
  55. To raise from depression or to a sufficient fortune.
  56. In seamen's language, to extend, as the shrouds, stays, etc.“The rest will I set in order when I come” 1 Corinthians 11:34
  57. To assign; to transfer; to convey.

SET, verb intransitive

  1. To decline; to go down; to pass below the horizin; as, the sun sets; the stars set.
  2. To be fixed hard; to be close or firm.
  3. To fit music to words.
  4. To congeal or concrete.
  5. To begin a journey.
  6. To plant; as, 'to sow dry, and to set wet.'
  7. To flow; to have a certain direction in motion; as, the tide sets to the east or north; the current sets westward.
  8. To catch birds with a dog that sets them, that is, one that lies down and points them out, and with a large net.
  9. To become settled in a particular state.“The sons of Aaron and the sons of Merari set forward” Numbers 4:5
  10. To assault; to make an attack.
  11. To have a beginning.
  12. To profess openly; to make pretensions.

SET, participle passive

  1. Placed; put; located; fixed; adjusted; composed; studded or adorned; reduced, as a dislocated or broken bone.
  2. adjective Regular; uniform; formal; as a set speech or phrase; a set discourse; a set battle.
  3. Fixed in opinion; determined; firm; obstinate; as a man set in his opinions or way.
  4. Established; prescribed; as set forms of prayer.

SET, noun

  1. A number or collection of things of the same kind and of similar form, which are ordinarily used together; as a set of chairs; a set of tea cups; a set of China or other ware.
  2. A number of things fitted to be used together, though different in form; as a set of dining tables.
  3. A number of persons customarily or officialy associated, as a set of men, a set of officers; or a number of persons having a simlitude of character, or of things which have some resemblance or relation to each other.
  4. A number of particular things that are united in the formation of a whole; as a set of features.
  5. A young plant for growth; as sets of white thorn or other shrub.
  6. The descent of the sun or other other below the horizon; as the set of the sun.
  7. A wager at dice.
  8. A game.

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.