שָׁם
there
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where H8033 appears in the Book of Judges — 38 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.
Judges
- Judges 1:7 שָֽׁם adv Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- Judges 1:11 מִ/שָּׁ֔ם prep + adv From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)
- Judges 1:20 מִ/שָּׁ֔ם prep + adv They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
- Judges 2:5 שָׁ֖ם adv They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
- Judges 5:11 שָׁ֤ם adv Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
- Judges 5:27 שָׁ֖ם adv At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
- Judges 6:24 שָׁ֨ם adv Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 7:4 שָׁ֑ם adv Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go.
- Judges 8:8 מִ/שָּׁם֙ prep + adv He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
- Judges 8:25 שָׁ֔מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
- Judges 8:27 שָׁ֑ם adv Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
- Judges 9:21 שָׁ֔ם adv Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
- Judges 9:51 שָׁ֜מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 14:10 שָׁ֤ם adv His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
- Judges 16:1 שָׁם֙ adv Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
- Judges 16:27 וְ/שָׁ֕מָּ/ה conj + adv + sfx dem Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
- Judges 17:7 שָֽׁם adv There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
- Judges 18:2 שָֽׁם adv The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land. They came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
- Judges 18:3 שָׁ֗ם adv When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?
- Judges 18:10 שָׁ֣ם adv When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
- Judges 18:11 מִ/שָּׁם֙ prep + adv There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- Judges 18:13 מִ/שָּׁ֖ם prep + adv They passed there to the hill-country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
- Judges 18:15 שָׁ֔מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
- Judges 18:17 שָׁ֔מָּ/ה adv + sfx dem The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- Judges 19:2 שָׁ֕ם adv His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.
- Judges 19:4 שָֽׁם adv His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.
- Judges 19:7 שָֽׁם adv The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
- Judges 19:15 שָׁ֔ם adv They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.
- Judges 19:18 מִ/שָּׁ֣ם prep + adv He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went to Bethlehem Judah: and I am [now] going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.
- Judges 19:26 שָּׁ֖ם adv Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.
- Judges 20:22 שָׁ֖ם adv The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
- Judges 20:26 שָׁם֙ adv Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Yahweh.
- Judges 20:27 וְ/שָׁ֗ם conj + adv The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
- Judges 21:2 שָׁם֙ adv The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
- Judges 21:4 שָׁ֖ם adv It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings.
- Judges 21:9 שָׁם֙ adv For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
- Judges 21:10 שָׁ֣ם adv The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
- Judges 21:24 מִ/שָּׁ֤ם מִ/שָּׁ֔ם prep + adv prep + adv The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
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.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
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).
View all 732 occurrences in the concordance →
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);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8033, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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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.
