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Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H8033

שָׁם

sham · “there”

Used 835 times across 36 books

Definition
1) there, thither
1a) there
1b) thither (after verbs of motion)
1c) from there, thence
1d) then (as an adverb of time)
Aramaic equivalent: tam.mah (תַּמָּה "there" H8536)
Where it appears
Genesis
101
Exodus
32
Leviticus
5
Numbers
39
Deuteronomy
82
Joshua
26
Judges
39
Ruth
6
1 Samuel
50
2 Samuel
41
1 Kings
43
2 Kings
58
1 Chronicles
17
2 Chronicles
23
Ezra
6
Nehemiah
9
Job
10
Psalms
22
Proverbs
4
Ecclesiastes
7
Song of Solomon
3
Isaiah
34
Jeremiah
77
Ezekiel
68
Daniel
2
Hosea
8
Joel
4
Amos
8
Obadiah
1
Jonah
1
Micah
3
Nahum
2
Habakkuk
1
Zephaniah
1
Haggai
1
Zechariah
1
In the text
Genesis 2:8And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.Genesis 2:10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.Genesis 2:11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;Genesis 2:12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.Genesis 3:23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.Genesis 10:14And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.Genesis 11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Genesis 11:8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.Genesis 11:9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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