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שָׁםStrong’s H8033

sham

Appears in 732 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sham is the Hebrew word usually translated “there”, “from there” and “there towards”. It appears in 732 verses of the Old Testament.

“O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.”
Daniel 9:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. There, thitherthere · thither (after verbs of motion) · from there, thence · then (as an adverb of time)
How it's translated
  • there 591
  • from there 108
  • there towards 79
  • and there 44
  • and from there 8
  • and there towards 3
  • where there 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 86
  • Deuteronomy 75
  • Jeremiah 69
  • Ezekiel 55
  • 2 Kings 47
  • 1 Samuel 40

36 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 732 verses, by book
Song of Solomon 2
7:128:5
Daniel 2
9:710:13
Obadiah 1
1:4
Jonah 1
4:5
Micah 2
2:34:10
Nahum 2
2:113:15
Habakkuk 1
3:4
Zephaniah 1
1:14
Haggai 1
2:14
Zechariah 1
5:11
Hebrew dictionary

שָׁם sham · there

1) there, thither 1a) there 1b) thither (after verbs of motion) 1c) from there, thence 1d) then (as an adverb of time) Aramaic equivalent: tam.mah (תַּמָּה "there" H8536)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

THERE, adverb

  1. In that place.“The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed” Genesis 2:8
  2. It is sometimes opposed to here; there denoting the place most distant.
  3. Here and there in one place and another; as here a little and there a little.
  4. It is sometimes used by way of exclamation; calling the attention to something distant; as there there; see there; look there
All definitions
  1. there is used to begin sentences or before a verb; sometimes pertinently, and sometimes without signification; but its use is to firmly established that it cannot be dispensed with.“And there came a voice from heaven, saying, thou art my beloved Son” Mark 1:11
  2. In composition, there has the sense of a pronoun, as in Saxon; as thereby, which signifies by that.

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.