Midvash

שָׁםshâm

there, thither

Pronunciation: shawm · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8033

Meanings

1.

a. there (Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:12; Genesis 11:2)

b. preceded by the relative, אֲשֶׁר שָׁם where (Genesis 2:11; Exodus 20:21; 1 Samuel 9:10)

2. thither (Deuteronomy 1:37; Judges 19:15; Judges 21:10)

3. with ה locative

a. thither (Genesis 19:20; Genesis 19:22; Genesis 20:13)

b. whither, where (Genesis 20:13; Numbers 33:54; Deuteronomy 4:5)

c. there (Genesis 43:30; Joshua 2:1; Judges 16:27)

4. מִשָּׁם from there, thence

a. from there (Genesis 2:10; Genesis 11:8; Genesis 11:9)

b. whence (Genesis 24:5; Numbers 23:13)

c. origin, whence (Genesis 3:23; Genesis 10:14; Judges 19:18)

d. of the mass, from which something is taken or made (Genesis 27:9; Genesis 30:32; Leviticus 2:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 834 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
  • Genesis 2:10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
  • Genesis 2:11 The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
  • Genesis 2:12 The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
  • Genesis 3:23 So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
  • Genesis 10:14 Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.
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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).