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)
Translated as (BSB)
Forms
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Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 732 verses
- Genesis 28:2 מִשָּׁם֙
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
- Genesis 28:6 מִשָּׁ֖ם
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
- Genesis 28:11 שָׁם֙
On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
- Genesis 29:2 שָׁ֞ם
He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
- Genesis 29:3 שָׁ֣מָּה
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
- Genesis 30:32 מִשָּׁ֜ם
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
- Genesis 31:13 שָּׁם֙שָׁ֖ם
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
- Genesis 31:46 שָׁ֖ם
and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
- Genesis 32:13 שָׁ֖ם
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
- Genesis 32:29 שָֽׁם׃
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 33:19 שָׁם֙
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 33:20 שָׁ֖ם
There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
- Genesis 35:1 שָׁ֑םשָׁ֣ם
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- Genesis 35:3 שָּׁ֣ם
Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
- Genesis 35:7 שָׁם֙שָׁ֗ם
There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
- Genesis 35:15 שָׁ֛ם
Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
- Genesis 35:27 שָׁ֥ם
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 38:2 שָׁ֧ם
There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
- Genesis 39:1 שָֽׁמָּה׃
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- Genesis 39:11 שָׁ֖ם
One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.
- Genesis 39:20 שָׁ֖ם
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- Genesis 39:22 שָׁ֔ם
And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.
- Genesis 40:3 שָֽׁם׃
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
- Genesis 41:12 וְשָׁ֨ם
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
- Genesis 42:2 שָׁ֙מָּה֙מִשָּׁ֔ם
“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
- Genesis 42:26 מִשָּֽׁם׃
and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
- Genesis 43:25 שָׁ֖ם
Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
- Genesis 43:30 שָֽׁמָּה׃
Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
- Genesis 44:14 שָׁ֑ם
When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
- Genesis 45:11 שָׁ֔ם
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
- Genesis 46:3 שָֽׁם׃
“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
- Genesis 48:7 שָּׁם֙
Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
- Genesis 49:24 מִשָּׁ֥ם
Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
- Genesis 49:31 שָׁ֣מָּהשָׁ֚מָּהוְשָׁ֥מָּה
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
- Genesis 50:5 שָׁ֖מָּה
my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
- Genesis 50:10 שָׁ֔ם
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
- Exodus 8:22 שָׁ֖ם
But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.
- Exodus 9:26 שָׁ֖ם
The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
- Exodus 10:26 שָֽׁמָּה׃
Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”
- Exodus 12:13 שָׁ֔ם
The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 12:30 שָׁ֖ם
During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
- Exodus 15:25 שָׁ֣םוְשָׁ֥ם
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
- Exodus 15:27 וְשָׁ֗םשָׁ֖ם
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
- Exodus 16:33 שָׁ֥מָּה
So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
- Exodus 17:3 שָׁ֤ם
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
- Exodus 17:6 שָּׁ֥ם׀
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Exodus 18:5 שָׁ֖ם
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
- Exodus 19:2 שָׁ֥ם
After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- Exodus 20:21 שָׁ֖ם
And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
- Exodus 21:13 שָֽׁמָּה׃ס
If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.