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
- Numbers 33:54 שָׁ֛מָּה
And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
- Numbers 35:6 שָׁ֖מָּה
Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Numbers 35:11 שָׁ֙מָּה֙
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:15 שָׁ֔מָּה
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:25 שָׁ֑מָּה
The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
- Numbers 35:26 שָֽׁמָּה׃
But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
- Deuteronomy 1:28 שָֽׁם׃
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 1:37 שָֽׁם׃
The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
- Deuteronomy 1:38 שָׁ֑מָּה
Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
- Deuteronomy 1:39 שָׁ֑מָּה
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 שָֽׁמָּה׃
And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 שָׁ֖מָּה
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 שָׁ֖מָּה
At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
- Deuteronomy 4:26 שָׁ֖מָּה
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 4:27 שָֽׁמָּה׃
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 4:28 שָׁ֣ם
And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Deuteronomy 4:29 מִשָּׁ֛ם
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 4:42 שָׁ֜מָּה
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
- Deuteronomy 5:15 מִשָּׁ֔ם֙
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 שָׁ֖מָּה
These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
- Deuteronomy 6:23 מִשָּׁ֑ם
But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.
- Deuteronomy 7:1 שָׁ֖מָּה
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Deuteronomy 9:28 מִשָּׁם֒
Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
- Deuteronomy 10:5 שָׁ֔ם
and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.
- Deuteronomy 10:6 שָׁ֣םשָׁ֔ם
The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
- Deuteronomy 10:7 מִשָּׁ֥ם
From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
- Deuteronomy 11:8 שָׁ֖מָּה
You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
- Deuteronomy 11:10 שָׁ֙מָּה֙מִשָּׁ֑ם
For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
- Deuteronomy 11:11 שָׁ֙מָּה֙
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
- Deuteronomy 11:29 שָׁ֖מָּה
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- Deuteronomy 12:2 שָׁ֣ם
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 12:5 שָׁ֑םשָֽׁמָּה׃
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- Deuteronomy 12:6 שָׁ֗מָּה
To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
- Deuteronomy 12:7 שָׁ֗ם
There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 שָׁ֔םשָׁ֣מָּה
then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:14 שָׁ֖םוְשָׁ֣ם
you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
- Deuteronomy 12:21 שָׁם֒
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
- Deuteronomy 12:29 שָׁ֛מָּה
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
- Deuteronomy 13:12 שָׁ֖ם
If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
- Deuteronomy 14:23 שָׁם֒
And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
- Deuteronomy 14:24 שָׁ֑ם
But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,
- Deuteronomy 14:26 שָּׁ֗ם
Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
- Deuteronomy 16:2 שָֽׁם׃
You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
- Deuteronomy 16:6 שָׁ֛ם
You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 16:11 שָֽׁם׃
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:12 שָׁם֙
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 18:6 שָׁ֑ם
Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
- Deuteronomy 18:7 שָׁ֖ם
then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 19:3 שָׁ֖מָּה
You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:4 שָׁ֖מָּה
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him: