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
- Ruth 4:1 שָׁם֒
Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
- 1 Samuel 1:3 וְשָׁ֞ם
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 1:22 שָׁ֖ם
but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
- 1 Samuel 1:28 שָׁ֖ם
I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.
- 1 Samuel 2:14 שָׁ֖ם
and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.
- 1 Samuel 3:3 שָׁ֖ם
Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.
- 1 Samuel 4:4 מִשָּׁ֗םוְשָׁ֞ם
So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 שָֽׁם׃
Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
- 1 Samuel 6:14 שָׁ֔םוְשָׁ֖ם
The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 7:6 שָׁ֔ם
When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
- 1 Samuel 7:17 שָׁ֣םוְשָׁ֖םשָׁ֥ם
Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 שָּׁ֔ם
“Look,” said the servant, “in this city there is a man of God who is highly respected; everything he says surely comes to pass. Let us go there now. Perhaps he will tell us which way to go.”
- 1 Samuel 9:10 שָׁ֖ם
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
- 1 Samuel 10:3 מִשָּׁ֜םשָּׁם֙
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 שָׁ֖םשָׁ֜ם
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
- 1 Samuel 10:10 שָׁם֙
When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied along with them.
- 1 Samuel 10:12 מִשָּׁ֛ם
Then a man who lived there replied, “And who is their father?” So the saying became a proverb: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
- 1 Samuel 10:23 מִשָּׁ֔ם
So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.
- 1 Samuel 11:14 שָׁ֖ם
Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”
- 1 Samuel 11:15 שָׁ֨םשָׁ֛םשָׁ֥ם
So all the people went to Gilgal and confirmed Saul as king in the presence of the LORD. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.
- 1 Samuel 14:11 שָֽׁם׃
So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
- 1 Samuel 14:34 שָֽׁם׃
Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.’” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
- 1 Samuel 17:49 מִשָּׁ֥ם
Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
- 1 Samuel 19:3 שָׁ֔ם
I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”
- 1 Samuel 19:23 שָׁ֔ם
So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
- 1 Samuel 20:6 שָׁ֖ם
If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
- 1 Samuel 20:19 שָּׁ֖ם
When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
- 1 Samuel 21:6 שָׁ֜ם
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
- 1 Samuel 21:7 וְשָׁ֡ם
Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
- 1 Samuel 22:1 מִשָּׁ֔םשָֽׁמָּה׃
So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
- 1 Samuel 22:3 מִשָּׁ֖ם
From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
- 1 Samuel 22:22 שָׁם֙
Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.
- 1 Samuel 23:22 שָׁ֑ם
Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
- 1 Samuel 23:23 שָׁ֔ם
Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
- 1 Samuel 23:29 מִשָּׁ֑ם
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
- 1 Samuel 24:3 וְשָׁ֣ם
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
- 1 Samuel 26:5 שָׁ֣םשָׁ֣ם
Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
- 1 Samuel 27:5 שָּׁ֑ם
Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
- 1 Samuel 29:4 שָׁ֔ם
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
- 1 Samuel 30:31 שָׁ֥ם
and to those in Hebron and in all the places where David and his men had roamed.
- 1 Samuel 31:12 שָֽׁם׃
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
- 2 Samuel 1:21 שָׁ֤ם
O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 2:2 שָׁם֙
So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
- 2 Samuel 2:4 שָׁ֧ם
Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
- 2 Samuel 2:18 שָׁ֗ם
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
- 2 Samuel 2:23 שָׁ֖םשָׁ֧ם
But Asahel refused to turn away; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into his stomach, and it came out his back, and he fell dead on the spot. And every man paused when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 שָׁם֙
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
- 2 Samuel 4:3 שָׁ֣ם
because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
- 2 Samuel 5:20 שָׁ֣ם
So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.
- 2 Samuel 5:21 שָׁ֖ם
There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.