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# שׂים

Biblical Aramaic

**set** — used 26 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

set [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׂוּם: vb. set, make Peʿîl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. set, make (v. BH; for Pers. infl. on usage cf. Scheft65);— Pf. 3 ms. שָׂם Ezr 5:3 +, sf. שָׂמֵהּ 5:14; 2 ms. שַׂ֫מְתָּ Dn 3:10; 1 s. שָׂ֫מֶת טְעֵם Ezr 6:12; 3 mpl. שָׂמוּ Dn 3:12; Imv. mpl. שִׂ֫ימוּ Ezr 4:21;— make, acc. טְעֵם = make decree Dn 3:10; Ezr 6:1, 12, + vb. fin. v 3, + inf. 4:21; 5:13 and (c. ל pers.) v 3, 9. make, appoint, one’s name Dn 5:12 (2 acc.), one to office Ezr 5:14 (2 acc.). set, fix, acc. בָּל mind, Dn 6:15 (c. inf.); acc. טְעֵם 3:12; 6:14 pay due regard (טְעֵם) to (עַל pers.). Peʿîl. 3 ms. מִנִּי שִׂים טְעֵם Ezr 4:19 from me a decree is made, so 5:17; 6:8, 11; 7:13, 21; Dn 3:29; 4:3; 6:27; lit. 3 fs. שֻׂמַת (read prob. שִׂימַת K§ 45, Beisp. 1. d)) 6:18 (of stone, עַל loc.). be made: Impf. 3 ms. יִתְּשָׂם Ezr 4:21 (of decree, טְעֵם c. מִן agent); 3 mpl. יִתְּשָׂמוּן Dn 2:5 subj. rei + n. pred. be made into; Pt. מִתְּשָׂם Ezr 5:8 lit. be set, laid, of wood, ב of wall.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it is made (6); he made (4); it was made (3).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.3/#tree)

וּמִנִּי֙ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵ֔ם לְהַנְעָלָ֣ה קָֽדָמַ֔י לְכֹ֖ל חַכִּימֵ֣י בָבֶ֑ל דִּֽי־פְשַׁ֥ר חֶלְמָ֖א יְהֽוֹדְעֻנַּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and from me it.was.made a.decree to bring.in before me (et) all the.wise.men of.Babylon that the.interpretation of the.dream they will.make.known.to.me

*JPS 1917:* Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.

[Ezra 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/#tree)

כְּעַן֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ טְּעֵ֔םלְבַטָּלָ֖א גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֑ךְ וְקִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ לָ֣א תִתְבְּנֵ֔א עַד־מִנִּ֖י טַעְמָ֥א יִתְּשָֽׂם׃

*Word for word:* now make a.decree to make.to.cease the men these and the city this not it.will.be.built until from me the decree it.will.be.made

*JPS 1917:* Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d9_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d9_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).