שָׁם
sham
1. there, thither
a. there
b. thither (after verbs of motion)
c. from there, thence
d. then (as an adverb of time)
Aramaic equivalent: tam.mah (תַּמָּה "there" H8536)
Combined with ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389)
This name means there, thither
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 732 verses
- Ecclesiastes 3:17 שָֽׁם׃
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 שָֽׁמָּה׃ס
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3 שָׁ֥ם
If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
- Song of Solomon 7:12 שָׁ֛ם
Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 שָׁ֚מָּהשָׁ֖מָּה
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Isaiah 7:23 שָּׁ֛ם
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Isaiah 7:24 שָׁ֑מָּה
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:25 שָׁ֔מָּה
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
- Isaiah 13:20 שָׁם֙שָֽׁם׃
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
- Isaiah 13:21 שָׁ֣םשָׁם֙שָֽׁם׃
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- Isaiah 20:6 שָׁם֙
And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”
- Isaiah 22:18 שָׁ֣מָּהוְשָׁ֙מָּה֙
roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.
- Isaiah 23:12 שָׁ֖ם
He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus— even there you will find no rest.”
- Isaiah 27:10 שָׁ֣םוְשָׁ֥ם
For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- Isaiah 28:10 שָׁ֖םשָֽׁם׃
For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
- Isaiah 28:13 שָׁ֖םשָׁ֑ם
Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isaiah 33:21 שָׁ֞ם
But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
- Isaiah 34:12 שָׁ֖ם
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
- Isaiah 34:14 שָׁם֙
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
- Isaiah 34:15 שָׁ֣מָּהשָׁ֛ם
There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
- Isaiah 35:8 שָׁ֞ם
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.
- Isaiah 35:9 שָׁ֜םשָׁ֑ם
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
- Isaiah 37:33 שָׁ֖ם
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- Isaiah 48:16 שָׁ֣ם
Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
- Isaiah 52:4 שָׁ֑ם
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
- Isaiah 52:11 מִשָּׁ֔ם
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
- Isaiah 55:10 וְשָׁ֙מָּה֙
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Isaiah 57:7 שָׁ֥ם
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
- Isaiah 65:9 שָֽׁמָּה׃
And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
- Isaiah 65:20 מִשָּׁ֜ם
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Jeremiah 2:6 שָֽׁם׃
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- Jeremiah 3:6 שָֽׁם׃
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
- Jeremiah 7:2 שָּׁ֔ם
“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:12 שָׁ֖ם
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- Jeremiah 8:3 שָׁ֔ם
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 8:14 שָּׁ֑ם
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 8:22 שָׁ֑ם
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Jeremiah 13:4 שָׁ֖ם
“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
- Jeremiah 13:6 מִשָּׁם֙שָֽׁם׃
Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
- Jeremiah 13:7 שָׁ֑מָּה
So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.
- Jeremiah 16:13 שָׁ֞ם
So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
- Jeremiah 16:15 שָׁ֑מָּה
Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
- Jeremiah 18:2 וְשָׁ֖מָּה
“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
- Jeremiah 19:2 שָּׁ֔ם
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
- Jeremiah 19:14 שָׁ֖ם
Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
- Jeremiah 20:6 וְשָׁ֤םוְשָׁ֣ם
And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
- Jeremiah 22:1 שָׁ֔ם
This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
- Jeremiah 22:11 שָׁ֖ם
For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
- Jeremiah 22:12 שָׁ֣ם
but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
- Jeremiah 22:24 מִשָּׁ֖ם
“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.