שָׁם
there
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- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where H8033 appears in the Book of Genesis — 86 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis
- Genesis 2:8 שָׁ֔ם adv Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:10 וּ/מִ/שָּׁם֙ conj + prep + adv A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
- Genesis 2:11 שָׁ֖ם adv The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 שָׁ֥ם adv and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 3:23 מִ/שָּֽׁם prep + adv Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- Genesis 10:14 מִ/שָּׁ֛ם prep + adv Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- Genesis 11:2 שָֽׁם adv It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there.
- Genesis 11:7 שָׁ֖ם adv Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 11:8 מִ/שָּׁ֖ם prep + adv So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- Genesis 11:9 שָׁ֛ם וּ/מִ/שָּׁם֙ adv conj + prep + adv Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 11:31 שָֽׁם adv Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.
- Genesis 12:7 שָׁם֙ adv Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 12:8 מִ/שָּׁ֜ם שָׁ֤ם prep + adv adv He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 12:10 שָׁ֔ם adv There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 13:3 שָׁ֤ם adv He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
- Genesis 13:4 שָׁ֖ם שָׁ֛ם adv adv to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 13:14 שָׁ֑ם adv Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 13:18 שָׁ֥ם adv Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
- Genesis 14:10 שָׁ֑מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
- Genesis 18:16 מִ/שָּׁם֙ prep + adv The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
- Genesis 18:22 מִ/שָּׁם֙ prep + adv The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
- Genesis 18:28 שָׁ֔ם adv What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
- Genesis 18:29 שָׁ֖ם adv He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
- Genesis 18:30 שָׁ֖ם שָׁ֖ם adv adv He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
- Genesis 18:31 שָׁ֖ם adv He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
- Genesis 18:32 שָׁ֖ם adv He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 19:20 שָׁ֖מָּ/ה שָׁ֗מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem adv + sfx dem See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
- Genesis 19:22 שָׁ֔מָּ/ה שָׁ֑מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem adv + sfx dem Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- Genesis 19:27 שָׁ֖ם adv Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
- Genesis 20:1 מִ/שָּׁ֤ם prep + adv Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foriegner in Gerar.
- Genesis 20:13 שָׁ֔מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
- Genesis 21:17 שָֽׁם adv God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 21:31 שָׁ֥ם adv Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
- Genesis 21:33 שָׁ֔ם adv Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
- Genesis 22:2 שָׁם֙ adv He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
- Genesis 22:9 שָׁ֤ם adv They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
- Genesis 23:13 שָֽׁמָּ/ה adv + sfx dem He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
- Genesis 24:5 מִ/שָּֽׁם prep + adv The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
- Genesis 24:6 שָֽׁמָּ/ה adv + sfx dem Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
- Genesis 24:7 מִ/שָּֽׁם prep + adv Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:8 שָֽׁמָּ/ה adv + sfx dem If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
- Genesis 25:10 שָׁ֛מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
- Genesis 26:8 שָׁם֙ adv It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
- Genesis 26:17 מִ/שָּׁ֖ם שָֽׁם prep + adv adv Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
- Genesis 26:19 שָׁ֔ם adv Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Genesis 26:22 מִ/שָּׁ֗ם prep + adv He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 26:23 מִ/שָּׁ֖ם prep + adv He went up from there to Beersheba.
- Genesis 26:25 שָׁ֣ם שָׁ֖ם שָׁ֥ם adv adv adv He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
- Genesis 27:9 מִ/שָּׁ֗ם prep + adv Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
- Genesis 27:45 מִ/שָּׁ֑ם prep + adv until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Genesis 28:2 מִ/שָּׁם֙ prep + adv Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
- Genesis 28:6 מִ/שָּׁ֖ם prep + adv Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 28:11 שָׁם֙ adv He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
- Genesis 29:2 שָׁ֞ם adv He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
- Genesis 29:3 שָׁ֣מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
- Genesis 30:32 מִ/שָּׁ֜ם prep + adv I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
- Genesis 31:13 שָּׁם֙ שָׁ֖ם adv adv I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
- Genesis 31:46 שָׁ֖ם adv Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
- Genesis 32:13 שָׁ֖ם adv He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
- Genesis 32:29 שָֽׁם adv Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
- Genesis 33:19 שָׁם֙ adv He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
- Genesis 33:20 שָׁ֖ם adv He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
- Genesis 35:1 שָׁ֑ם שָׁ֣ם adv adv God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
- Genesis 35:3 שָּׁ֣ם adv Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
- Genesis 35:7 שָׁם֙ שָׁ֗ם adv adv He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- Genesis 35:15 שָׁ֛ם adv Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
- Genesis 35:27 שָׁ֥ם adv Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
- Genesis 38:2 שָׁ֧ם adv Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
- Genesis 39:1 שָֽׁמָּ/ה adv + sfx dem Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
- Genesis 39:11 שָׁ֖ם adv It happened about this time, that he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
- Genesis 39:20 שָׁ֖ם adv Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- Genesis 39:22 שָׁ֔ם adv The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was the doer of it.
- Genesis 40:3 שָֽׁם adv He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- Genesis 41:12 וְ/שָׁ֨ם conj + adv There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
- Genesis 42:2 שָׁ֨מָּ/ה֙ מִ/שָּׁ֔ם adv + sfx dem prep + adv He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
- Genesis 42:26 מִ/שָּֽׁם prep + adv They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
- Genesis 43:25 שָׁ֖ם adv They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
- Genesis 43:30 שָֽׁמָּ/ה adv + sfx dem Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought a place to weep; and he entered into his room, and wept there.
- Genesis 44:14 שָׁ֑ם adv Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
- Genesis 45:11 שָׁ֔ם adv There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
- Genesis 46:3 שָֽׁם adv He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation.
- Genesis 48:7 שָּׁם֙ adv As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
- Genesis 49:24 מִ/שָּׁ֥ם prep + adv But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
- Genesis 49:31 שָׁ֣מָּ/ה שָׁ֚מָּ/ה וְ/שָׁ֥מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem adv + sfx dem conj + adv + sfx dem There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
- Genesis 50:5 שָׁ֖מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
- Genesis 50:10 שָׁ֔ם adv They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
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The Hebrew verb שם centers on the idea of “there.” Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It turns up in 732 verses across 36 books, one of the most common footprint. First canonically at Genesis 2:8, it enters the text early. It clusters with אשר, של and תם under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H8033 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 732
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 732 distinct verses.
- 36 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 36 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #55
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 55 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Genesis 86 verses 12%
- Deuteronomy 75 verses 10%
- Jeremiah 69 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 732 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 400 verses · 55%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 231 verses · 32%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 101 verses · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: There 2×, Whither 2×
- American Standard Version: There 3×, Thither 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: There 400×, Where 29×, It 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: There 649×, To 12×, Was there 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8033 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8033 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8033 across 551 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 37 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 281 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8033 across 793 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
12 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 12 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1.
- a. there Gn 2:8, 12; 11:2, 7, 31 + often; placed early in sentence for emph., Mi 4:10 שָׁם תִּנָּצֵ֑לִי, Na 3:15; Ez 32:22, 24 ψ 104:26 +, וְשָׁם … Gn 41:12; Ex 15:27; Nu 13:22, 33 +, שָׁם … וְשָׁם Ex 15:25; Dt 12:14; Is 27:10; Jb 3:17 +, וְהִנֵּה שָׁם … Gn 29:2, כִּי שָׁם … 11:9; 21:31; 35:7; 2 S 1:21; 15:21 +, אַךְ שָׁם … Is 34:14, 15, גַּם שָׁם … 23:12; 57:7 ψ 139:10; resuming a preceding ‘where,’ Jb 39:30 בַּאֲשֶׁר חֲלָלִים שָׁם הוּא, Ju 5:27; Je 22:12; Ec 11:3, cf. 1:7. Repeated, שָׁם … שָׁם here … there Is 28:10, 13. In poetry, pointing to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination, ψ 14:5 שׁם פחדו פחד there feared they a fear! 36:13, cf. 48:7; 66:6; 132:17; Hos 6:7; Zp 1:14.—Hb 3:4 read probably (We Now) שָׂם the flashes at his side made he the hiding of his power; Ec 3:17 שָׁם = with God, in the Divine plan or scheme: but read perhaps שָׂם Hi De al. e.g. Genesis 2:8
- b. preceded by the rel., אֲשֶׁר שָׁם where, Gn 2:11; Ex 20:21; 1 S 9:10 +, usually with one or more words between, Gn 13:3, 14; 19:27; Ex 29:42; 2 S 11:16; 2 K 23:27 + often; after בַּאֲשֶׁר, בַּאֲשֶׁר הוּא שָׁם †Gn 21:17. With אשׁר omitted (the rel. being indic. by cstr., Ges§ 130 c, d) Ez 39:11 מְקוֹם שָׁם קֶבֶר בְּיִשְׂר׳ a place where a grave (may be) in Isr., but 𝔊 𝔙 Co Or al. read שֵׁם a place of renown. e.g. Genesis 2:11
- 2. thither, after vbs. of motion (= שָׁ֫מָּה, v. 3) Dt 1:37 לֹא תָבֹא שָׁם, Ju 19:15; 21:10; 1 S 2:14; 9:6 al, אֲשֶׁר … שָׁם whither, 1 K 18:10; 21:18; 2 K 1:4, 6, 16; Is 20:6, more often in Je Ez, as Je 8:3; 22:27; 23:3, 8; 45:5 +, Ez 4:13; 12:16; 36:20, 22 +; so שֶׁשָּׁם ψ 122:4. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:37
- 3. with ה loc., שָׁ֫מָּה (shā́mmāh):
- a. after vbs. of motion, thither, Gn 19:20 לָנוּס שָׁ֫מָּה to flee thither, v 22; 20:13; 24:6; 29:3; Dt 1:38 + often; = into it, therein (of a basket, pit, etc.), Ex 16:33 וְתֶן־שָׁ֫מָּה מְלֹא הָעֹמֶר, 21:33 וְנָפַל שָׁמָּה, 30:18; Ju 8:25; 2 K 12:10; pregnantly, after a verb implying motion, as to bury, Gn 23:13 וְאֶקְבְּרָה אֶת־מֵתִי שָׁ֫מָּה, 25:10; 49:31; 50:5 (all P), נוֹעַד to meet Ex 29:42, 43; 30:6, 36; Nu 17:19 (all P), Jos 2:16; 7:3; Je 13:7; Jo 4:7 (cf. b), Ct 8:5 (?c). e.g. Genesis 19:20
- b. אֲשֶׁר … שָׁ֫מָּה whither Gn 20:13; Nu 33:54; Dt 4:5, 14 + often; where 2 K 23:8; 1 Ch 4:41. e.g. Genesis 20:13
- c. more rarely, i. q. שָׁם there, Gn 43:30 וַיִּבְךְ שָׁ֫מָּה, Jos 2:1; Ju 16:27; 2 K 4:11; 9:16 Ho 2:17; Is 22:18; 34:15; 65:9; Je 18:2; 27:22; Ez 23:3; 32:29, 30 (v 22, 24, 26 שָׁם), 48:35 י׳ שָׁ֫מָּה, ψ 76:4; 122:5; Ec 3:16. e.g. Genesis 43:30
- 4. מִשָּׁם from there, thence:
- a. often after verbs of departing, taking, etc., Gn 2:10; 11:8, 9; 12:8; 18:16; 24:7; 42:2, etc., Nu 13:23; 21:12; 22:41 וַיַּרְא מִשָּׁם, Dt 4:29 וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם, 30:4; Je 37:12; Ho 2:17; Am 9:2, 3, 4; Jb 39:29 +. Peculiarly, Gn 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 𝔖) of the Shepherd, etc. (as Ew Di). e.g. Genesis 2:10
- b. אֲשֶׁר … מִשָּׁם whence Gn 24:5; Nu 23:13 +. e.g. Genesis 24:5
- c. expressing origin, Gn 3:23 the ground אֲשֶׁר לֻקַּח מִשָּׁם, 10:14 whence (= from whom) came forth the Phil., Ju 19:18 מִשָּׁם אָנֹכִי, 1 S 10:12 אִישׁ מִשָּׁם, Is 65:20. e.g. Genesis 3:23
- d. of the mass, from which something is taken or made, Gn 27:9; 30:32 (of צֹאן), Lv 2:2 וְקָמַץ מִשָּׁם וגו׳ (from the meal, etc., of a מנחה), 1 K 17:13 אַךְ עֲשָׂי לִי מִשָּׁם עֻגָה קְטַנָּה i.e. from the meal and oil, 2 K 7:2, 19 וּמִשָּׁם לֹא תֹאכִֽל׃, Ez 5:3. e.g. Genesis 27:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adv. there, thither (Arabic ثَمَّ there, cf. ثُمَّ then; Biblical Aramaic תַּמָּה, Egyptian Aramaic תמה S-CPap. A 4, J 6, 𝔗 תַּמָּן (with demonstr. n, cf. אֱדַיִן beside אֲזַי), Syriac ܬܰܡܳܢ; ZenjHad. 8 (Cooke159) שם);—
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Derived from אשר (ʼăsher) (H834) — which.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁם
- (b. h.) there, thither. Macc. II, 7 אינו יוצא מִשָּׁם לעולם he dare not go away from there (the city of refuge) all his life time; שם תהא דירתו שם וכ׳ there he must live, there he must die &c.; Tosef. ib. III (II), 5. Macc. 4ᵃ שנפל שם which fell thereinto. Ber. V, 4 אם אין שם כהן וכ׳ if no priest besides him is present; a. v. fr.—Cant. R. to VIII, 9 שָׁמָּה, v. רגָּז.—לְשָׁם thither. Ex. R. s. 18; a. fr.
שֵׁם I
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Shem, son of Noah. Meg. 9ᵇ (ref. to Gen. IX, 27) דבריו … באהלי שם let the speech of Japheth (Greek) dwell in the tents of Shem; v. יָפְיוּת. Gen. R. s. 63, v. עֵבֶר I. Snh. 69ᵇ. Ex. R. s. 18 the Lord said, חייב אני לשם אביהם וכ׳ I am indebted to their (the Assyrians’) father Shem, because he and Japheth took their cloaks and covered with it &c.; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 9:27
שֵׁם II
- v. שׁוּם a. mark, name, title, nature, denomination. Pes. III, 3 לא תקרא לה שם וכ׳ she must not name it (declare it to be Ḥallah) until it is baked. Ter. III, 5 האומר … קרא שם if one says, the priest’s portion of this pile is in it …, he has named it (designated it as T’rumah). Gen. R. s. 25 (ref. to Gen. V, 29) לא השם הוא המדרש … הוא השם וכ׳ the name (נח) and the interpretation (ינחמנו) do not correspond; it ought to be either &c. Ber. II, 8 ליטול … השם, v. נָטַל. Macc. I, 2 לא השם המביאו וכ׳ the title (the legal text) under which the false witness is doomed to lashes, is not the one under which he is bound to pay indemnity. Kinn. I, 3 משם אחד sacrificial birds of the same denomination (intended for the same class of cases), opp. משני שמות of different denominations. Sabb. XII, 3 משם אחד two letters of the alphabet of the same name (אא, בב &c.), opp. משתי שמות two different letters (אב &c.). Ib. שם קטן משם גדול וכ׳ a small name or word as a part (or abbreviation) of a larger one, as שם as a part of שמעון, of שמואל &c. Ib. 103ᵇ שתי אותיות והן שם אחד two identical letters which represent a word, (as שש, which may stand for שֵׁשׁ or שָׂשׂ) &c. Shebu. 3ᵇ, a. fr. לא מן השם הוא זה וכ׳ this comes not under this title (this is not the real reason), but it is because &c. Ker. III, 4 אינו מן השם the offence is not of the same class. Macc. 4ᵇ, a. fr. (על חבירו) מוציא שם רע who spreads an evil report about his neighbor (injures his reputation). Ber. 17ᵃ גדל בשם טוב וכ׳ who has grown up with a good name, and departed life with a good name; a. v. fr.—Esp. הַשֵּׁם or שֵׁם the Divine Name, the Tetragrammaton, contradist. to כינוי attribute; in gen. the Lord. Snh. VII, 5 המגדף … שיפרש השם the blasphemer is not punishable, unless he uses the Name explicitly. Ib. 8 המקלל … בַּשֵּׁם he that curses his father or his mother is not punishable, unless he curses them with the Name. Ib. 56ᵃ בידך את השם בכינוי (not בכינויים) if he curses God by using a divine attribute. Ib. עד שיברך שם בשם unless he curses God and pronounces the Name. Yoma III, 8; IV, 2; VI, 2 (בשם) אנא השם I pray, O Lord (pronouncing the Tetragrammaton). Ib. כשהיו שומעים שם המפורש שהוא יוצא וכ׳ when they heard the Tetragrammaton pronounced &c., v. פָּרַשׁ. Ib. IV, 1 אחד … לַשֵּׁם on one of the lots was written ‘unto the Lord’; של שם the lot bearing the inscription ‘unto the Lord’; a. v. fr.; v. שָׁמַיִם.—Especial uses: כְּשֵׁם שֶׁ־ the same as, as well as. Ber. IX, 5 חייב אדם … כשם שמברך וכ׳ a man is bound to bless God for what is evil as well as he blesses for what is good. Ib. 62ᵃ כשם שנפרעין וכ׳ as well as the dead are called to account &c., v. סַפְדָּן. Sot. V, 1 כשם שהמים … כך וכ׳ as the waters test her, so do they test him. Ib. כשם שאסורה וכ׳, v. בָּעַל; a. v. fr.—בְּשֵׁם, מִשֵּׁם in the name of, in behalf of. Meg. 15ᵃ כל האומר דכר בשם אומרו וכ׳ he who relates a thing in the name of him who said it (gives credit to authority), brings redemption into the world. Peah II, 4 מִשְּׁמוֹ in his own name (as his individual opinion). Y. Taan. I, 64ᵃ הלכה … שאמר משם וכ׳ the rule follows the opinion of …, who said in behalf of &c.; a. v. fr.—לְשֵׁם for the purpose of, for the sake of, as; with reference to. Gitt. 24ᵇ כתב רחמנא לה לִשְׁמָהּ the text (Deut. XXIV, 3) says, ‘unto her’, that means, that it must be written especially for her. Yeb. 47ᵇ, v. שׁוּם II.—Snh. 99ᵇ העוסק בתורה לשמה who studies the Law for its own sake (for no selfish ends). Pes. 50ᵇ לעולם יעסוק … אע"פ שלא לשמה … בא לשמה by all means let a man engage in the study of the Law and in good deeds, even if not for their own sake, for through the work for a selfish purpose he will arrive at the stage of doing good for its own sake. Ib. 13ᵇ, a. e. שחטן לִשְׁמָן וכ׳ if he slaughtered them as such (as festive sacrifices) &c.; זרק דמן שלא לשמן if he sprinkled their blood, having in mind another purpose (another class of sacrifices). Gen. R. s. 25 לשם קרבנו נקרא he was named (נח) with reference to his sacrifice (ניחח, Gen. VIII, 21); לשם נחת וכ׳ he was named (נח) with reference to the rest of the ark (ותנח, Gen. VIII, 4); Yalk. ib. 42 על שם וכ׳; a. v. fr.—עַל שֵׁם (abbrev. ע"ש) with reference to, because. Y. Taan. II, beg. 65ᵃ על שם ואנכי וכ׳ as a reference to (what Abraham said,) ‘and I am but dust and ashes’ (Gen. XVIII, 27). Gen. R. s. 23, v. טְבַרְיָא; a. fr.; v. שׁוּם II.—Pl. שֵׁמוֹת, constr. שְׁמוֹת. Kinn. l. c. Gen. R. s. 26 כל הש׳ הללו וכ׳ all these names indicate rebellion &c., v. מַרְדּוּת I. B. Mets. 114ᵇ עובר בכל הש׳ הללו is guilty under all these titles (texts). Shebu. 35ᵃ יש ש׳ שנמחקין ויש ש׳ וכ׳ there are divine names which may be erased, and such as may not be erased. Y. R. Hash. I, 56ᵈ bot. שְׁ׳ המלאכים, v. מַלְאָךְ; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 5:29
שֵׁם
- Targ. Y. II, Ex. XXXI, 2. Targ. Ps. CXLVII, 4. Targ. O. Gen. VI, 4; a. fr.—Sot. 49ᵃ יהא שְׁמֵיה רבא (abbrev. יה"ש"ר), v. אֲגַדְתָּא. Ab. I, 13, v. נְגַד. Yoma 83ᵇ, v. דּוּק. Ber. 7ᵇ, v. גְּרַם I. Sabb. 8ᵇ (in Hebr. dict.) שמיה הילוך comes under the category of ‘walking’; לא שמיה תשמיש does not come under the category of ‘use.’ Ḥull. 48ᵃ משמיה רר׳ וכ׳ in behalf of &c.; Y. Taan. I, 64ᵃ bot. מן שמיה. Sabb. 145ᵇ שְׁמָאִי my name, v. מָתָא; a. v. fr.—Y. Orl. I, 61ᵃ bot. אית בני נש שְׁמוֹן בריכה וכ׳ there are persons whose name is B’rikah (meaning blessing), as one says, come thou, blessed of the Lord.—Pl. שְׁמָהָן, שְׁמָהָתָא; שְׁמַיָּיא, שְׁמֵי. Targ. Gen. II, 20. Ib. XXVI, 18. Targ. O. Num. I, 5 שְׁמָהַת constr.; Y. שְׁמָהָיַית; a. fr.—Gitt. 11ᵇ שמהתא … בשְׁמָהָתַיְיהוּ other names which Jews frequently adopt for their own, v. נְסַק. Meg. 14ᵇ סניין שְׁמַיְיהוּ, v. סְנֵי; a. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 84 distinct written forms H8033 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁ֖ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:14 | 103 |
| שָֽׁם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 1:28 | 79 |
| שָׁ֔ם | Adverb | Daniel 9:7 | 56 |
| שָׁ֑ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:5 | 45 |
| שָׁם֙ | Adverb | Deuteronomy 17:12 | 45 |
| שָׁ֣ם | Adverb | Amos 7:12 | 44 |
| שָׁ֖מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 4:5 | 29 |
| שָֽׁמָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 3:21 | 27 |
| שָׁ֛ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 16:6 | 26 |
| שָׁ֤ם | Adverb | Exodus 17:3 | 23 |
| שָׁ֥ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 21:4 | 23 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֖ם | Adverb | Amos 6:2 | 22 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֔ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 5:15 | 16 |
| שָׁ֔מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 32:50 | 15 |
| שָׁ֑מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 1:38 | 14 |
| שָׁ֗ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:7 | 14 |
| שָׁ֨מָּ/ה֙ | Adverb | Deuteronomy 11:10 | 13 |
| מִ/שָּׁם֙ | Adverb | Genesis 18:16 | 12 |
| מִ/שָּֽׁם | Adverb | Genesis 3:23 | 9 |
| וְ/שָׁ֖ם | Adverb | Amos 7:12 | 8 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֗ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 30:4 | 8 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֛ם | Adverb | Amos 9:3 | 8 |
| שָׁ֣מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:11 | 8 |
| שָׁ֨ם | Adverb | Ezekiel 39:11 | 8 |
| שָׁם֒ | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:21 | 8 |
| וְ/שָׁ֣ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:14 | 7 |
| וְ/שָׁ֥ם | Adverb | Exodus 15:25 | 7 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֑ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 6:23 | 7 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֥ם | Adverb | Amos 9:3 | 7 |
| שָׁ֜ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 34:5 | 7 |
| שָׁ֞ם | Adverb | Ezekiel 42:13 | 7 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֜ם | Adverb | Genesis 12:8 | 6 |
| שָׁ֧ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 28:68 | 6 |
| וְ/שָׁם֙ | Adverb | 1 Chronicles 11:4 | 5 |
| וּ/מִ/שָּׁ֖ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 30:4 | 5 |
| שָׁ֛מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:29 | 5 |
| שָׁ֜מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 4:42 | 5 |
| שָּׁ֔ם | Adverb | 1 Kings 4:28 | 5 |
| שָּׁ֛ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 28:36 | 5 |
| וְ/שָׁ֞ם | Adverb | Ezekiel 20:40 | 4 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֤ם | Adverb | Genesis 20:1 | 4 |
| שָׁ֗מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:6 | 4 |
| שָׁ֚ם | Adverb | Ezekiel 47:23 | 4 |
| שָׁ֥מָּ/ה | Adverb | Ecclesiastes 3:16 | 4 |
| שָּׁם֙ | Adverb | Deuteronomy 27:5 | 4 |
| וְ/שָׁ֨מָּ/ה֙ | Adverb | Deuteronomy 32:52 | 3 |
| שָׁ֚מָּ/ה | Adverb | Ezekiel 23:3 | 3 |
| שָׁ֝֗ם | Adverb | Job 34:22 | 3 |
| שָׁ֭ם | Adverb | Psalms 104:17 | 3 |
| שָּׁ֑ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 27:7 | 3 |
| שָּׁ֖ם | Adverb | 1 Samuel 20:19 | 3 |
| שָּׁ֗ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 14:26 | 3 |
| וְ/שָׁ֖מָּ/ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 34:4 | 2 |
| וְ/שָׁ֗ם | Adverb | Exodus 15:27 | 2 |
| וְ/שָׁ֤ם | Adverb | Jeremiah 20:6 | 2 |
| וְ/שָׁ֨ם | Adverb | Genesis 41:12 | 2 |
| וּ/מִ/שָּׁם֙ | Adverb | Genesis 2:10 | 2 |
| מִ/שָּׁ֣ם | Adverb | Judges 19:18 | 2 |
| מִ֠/שָּׁם | Adverb | 1 Kings 17:13 | 2 |
| שָׁ֕ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 26:5 | 2 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 24 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 698 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 732 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:8
- Exodus 8:22
- Leviticus 2:2
- Numbers 9:17
- Deuteronomy 1:28
- Joshua 2:1
- Judges 1:7
- Ruth 1:2
- 1 Samuel 1:3
- 2 Samuel 1:21
- 1 Kings 1:14
- 2 Kings 1:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.