שׂוּם (sum) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning put. It appears
586 times
in 37 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7760).
Also rendered
to set
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2243)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2243)put, place, set; upon, lay, direct, ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix, station, set up, for, transform into, work, bring to pass, give; bring, call, care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
שׂוּםverb: put, place, set
Qal
1.
a.put, set, in a place
b.put something upon
c.put, lay, set
d.put, with בֵּין
2.set, direct
3.
a.set, ordain, in a place
b.set, establish a law, statute
c.set, found a nation
d.set, appoint (as ruler, official)
e.set, constitute, make
f.set, determine, fix, bounds
4.
a.set, station, at a post
b.put in position, sacred bread, sword, staves, bars
c.set up altars
d.plant, wheat
e.set, fix (countenance)
5.
a.make a thing, or person (accusative), for, transform into
b.make, constitute
c.work, bring to pass
d.appoint, give
e.set, fix (countenance)
Strong's H7760שׂוּם: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) KJV:× any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.