STRONGS NUMBER H8033


Word Summary
sham: there, thither
Original Word: שָׁם
Transliteration: sham
Phonetic Spelling: (shawm)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: there, thither
Meaning: there, then, thither
Strong's Concordance
in it, thence, there in, of, out, thither, whither

A primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, 'aher); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence -- in it, + thence, there (-in, + of, + out), + thither, + whither.

see HEBREW 'aher

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8033. sham

שָׁםadverb there, thither (Arabic there, compare then; Biblical Aramaic תַּמָּה‎, Egyptian Aramaic תמה‎ S-CPap. A 4, J 6, תַּמָּן ᵑ7‎ (with demonstrative n, compare אֱדַיִן‎ beside אֲזַי‎), Syriac ; ZenjHad. 8 (Cooke159) שם‎); —

1. a. there Genesis 2:8, 12; 11:2, 7, 31 + often; placed early in sentence for emphasis, Micah 4:10 תִּנָּצֵ֑לִי שָׁם‎, Nahum 3:15; Ezekiel 32:22, 24; Psalm 104:26 +, ֗֗֗ וְשָׁםGenesis 41:12; Exodus 15:27; Numbers 13:22, 33 +, וְשָׁם ֗֗֗ שָׁםExodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 12:14; Isaiah 27:10; Job 3:17 +, ֗֗֗ שָׁם וְהִנֵּהGenesis 29:2, ֗֗֗ שָׁם כִּי11:9; 21:31; 35:7; 2 Samuel 1:21; 15:21 +, ֗֗֗ שָׁם אַךְIsaiah 34:14-15, ֗֗֗ שָׁם גַּם23:12; 57:7; Psalm 139:10; resuming a preceding 'where,' Job 39:30 הוּא שָׁם חֲלָלִים בַּאֲשֶׁר‎, Judges 5:27; Jeremiah 22:12; Ecclesiastes 11:3, compare 1:7. Repeated, שָׁם ֗֗֗ שָׁםhere ... there Isaiah 28:10, 13. In poetry, pointing to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination, Psalm 14:5 פחד פחדו שׁםthere feared they a fear! Psalm 36:13, compare 48:7; 66:6; 132:17; Hosea 6:7; Zephaniah 1:14. — Habakkuk 3:4 read probably (We Now) שָׂם‎ the flashes at his side made he the hiding of his power; Ecclesiastes 3:17 שָׁם‎ = with God, in the Divine plan or scheme: but read perhaps שָׂם‎ Hi De and others

b. preceded by the rel., שָׁם אֲשֶׁרwhere, Genesis 2:11; Exodus 20:21; 1 Samuel 9:10 +, usually with one or more words between, Genesis 13:3, 14; 19:27; Exodus 29:42; 2 Samuel 11:16; 2 Kings 23:27 + often; after שָׁם הוּא בַּאֲשֶׁר בַּאֲשֶׁר,Genesis 21:17. With אשׁר‎ omitted (the relative being indicated by construct, Ges§ 130 c, d) Ezekiel 39:11 ׳בְּיִשְׂר קֶבֶר שָׁם מְקוֺם‎ a place where a grave (may be) in Israel, but ᵑ7 ᵐ5‎ Co Or and others read שֵׁם‎ a place of renown.

2 thither, after verbs of motion ( = שָׁ֫מָּה‎, see

3), Deuteronomy 1:37 שָׁם תָבאֹ לֹא‎, Judges 19:15; 21:10; 1 Samuel 2:14; 9:6 and elsewhere; שָׁם ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁרwhither, 1 Kings 18:10; 21:18; 2 Kings 1:4, 6, 16; Isaiah 20:6, more often in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, as Jeremiah 8:3; 22:27; 23:3, 8; 45:5 +, Ezekiel 4:13; 12:16; 36:20, 22 +; so שֶׁשָּׁםPsalm 122:4.

3 with ה‎ locative, שָׁ֫מָּה‎ (sh¹mm¹h):

a. after verbs of motion, thither, Genesis 19:20 שָׁ֫מָּה לָנוּס‎ to flee thither, 19:22; 20:13; 24:6; 29:3; Deuteronomy 1:38 + often; = into it, therein (of a basket, pit, etc.), Exodus 16:33 הָעֹמֶר מְלֹא וְתֶןשָֿׁ֫מָּה‎, 21:33 שָׁמָּה וְנָפַל‎, 30:18; Judges 8:25; 2 Kings 12:10; pregnantly, after a verb implying motion, as to bury, Genesis 23:13 שָׁ֫מָּה אֶתמֵֿתִי וְאֶקְבְּרָה‎, 25:10; 49:31; 50:5 (all P), נוֺעַדto meet Exodus 29:42-43, 30:6, 36; Numbers 17:19 (all P), Joshua 2:16; 7:3; Jeremiah 13:7; Joel 4:7, perhaps Song of Solomon 8:5 (? c).

b. שָׁ֫מָּה ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁרwhither Genesis 20:13; Numbers 33:54; Deuteronomy 4:5, 14 + often; where 2 Kings 23:8; 1 Chronicles 4:41.

c. more rarely, i. q. שָׁםthere, Genesis 43:30 שָׁ֫מָּה וַיֵּבְךְ‎, Joshua 2:1; Judges 16:27; 2 Kings 4:11; 9:16; Hosea 2:17; Isaiah 22:18; 34:15; 65:9; Jeremiah 18:2; 27:22; Ezekiel 23:3; 32:29-30, (32:22; 32:24; 32:26 שָׁם‎), 48:35 ׳י שָׁ֫מָּה‎, Psalm 76:4; 122:5; Ecclesiastes 3:16.

4 מִשָּׁםfrom there, thence:

a. often after verbs of departing, taking, etc., Genesis 2:10; 11:8-9, 12:8; 18:16; 24:7; 42:2, etc., Numbers 13:23; 21:12; 22:41 מִשָּׁם וַיַּרְא‎, Deuteronomy 4:29 מִשָּׁם וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם‎, 30:4; Jeremiah 37:12; Hosea 2:17; Amos 9:2-3, 4; Job 39:29 +. Peculiarly, Genesis 49:24 יִשְׂר אֶבֶן רֹעֶה ׳מִשָּׁם‎ 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 ᵑ6‎) of the Shepherd, etc. (as Ew Di).

b. מִשָּׁם ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁרwhence Genesis 24:5; Numbers 23:13 +.

c. expressing origin, Genesis 3:23 the ground מִשָּׁם לֻקַּח אֲשֶׁר‎, 10:14 whence (= from whom) came forth the Philistines, Judges 19:18 אָנֹכִי מִשָּׁם‎, 1 Samuel 10:12 מִשָּׁם אִישׁ‎, Isaiah 65:20.

d. of the mass, from which something is taken or made, Genesis 27:9; 30:32 (of צאֹן‎), Leviticus 2:2 זגו מִשָּׁם ׳וְקָמַץ‎ (from the meal, etc., of a מנחה‎), 1 Kings 17:13 קְטַנָּה עֻגָה מִשָּׁם לִי עֲשִׁי אַךְ‎ i.e. from the meal and oil, 2 Kings 7:2, 19 תאֵֹכל׃ לֹא וּמִשָּׁם‎, Ezekiel 5:3.