סַםçam
spice, used in incense (Exodus 30:34; Exodus 25:6; Leviticus 4:7; Leviticus 16:12; Numbers 4:16)
Pronunciation: sam · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5561
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 25:6 olive oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;
- Exodus 30:7 “Every morning when Aaron maintains the lamps, he must burn fragrant incense on the altar.
- Exodus 30:34 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather fragrant spices—resin droplets, mollusk shell, and galbanum—and mix these fragrant spices with pure frankincense, weighed out in equal amounts.
- Exodus 31:11 the anointing oil; the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. The craftsmen must make everything as I have commanded you.”
- Exodus 35:8 olive oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;
- Exodus 35:15 the incense altar and its carrying poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the entrance of the Tabernacle;
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).