שָׁם (sham) means “there” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shawm Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁם · sham · there
1) there, thither 1a) there 1b) thither (after verbs of motion) 1c) from there, thence 1d) then (as an adverb of time) Aramaic equivalent: tam.mah (תַּמָּה "there" H8536)
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שָׁם · sham · (Jerusalem) Is There
Combined with ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389) This name means there, thither
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a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, H834 (אֲשֶׁר)); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
KJV glosses: in it, [phrase] thence, there (-in, [phrase] of, [phrase] out), [phrase] thither, [phrase] whither.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| there | 304 |
| from there | 42 |
| and there | 38 |
| where | 31 |
| are there | 7 |
| was there | 7 |
| in it | 6 |
| into it | 6 |
| there is | 6 |
| were there | 6 |
| here | 5 |
| is there | 5 |
| and from there | 4 |
| from | 4 |
| and | 3 |
| it there | 3 |
| the jordan | 3 |
| to reside there | 3 |
| any of it | 2 |
| back | 2 |
| even from there | 2 |
| in zion | 2 |
| it | 2 |
| it was there | 2 |
| on the spot | 2 |
| out | 2 |
| then | 2 |
| there they are | 2 |
| vvv | 2 |
| who lived there | 2 |
| an area | 1 |
| and from that place | 1 |
| and relieve yourself | 1 |
| are | 1 |
| are found there | 1 |
| are staying | 1 |
| aside there | 1 |
| at pas-dammim | 1 |
| away | 1 |
| back there | 1 |
| be there | 1 |
| but if from there | 1 |
| from samaria | 1 |
| from that place | 1 |
| from the north | 1 |
| from them | 1 |
| from what you have | 1 |
| gath | 1 |
| had been there | 1 |
| him | 1 |
| in moab | 1 |
| in such places | 1 |
| in the name of | 1 |
| into exile | 1 |
| into the pits | 1 |
| its | 1 |
| lies | 1 |
| lived | 1 |
| near it | 1 |
| nearby | 1 |
| of there | 1 |
| off | 1 |
| on | 1 |
| onto it | 1 |
| right there | 1 |
| that place | 1 |
| the bodies there | 1 |
| the land | 1 |
| the land that | 1 |
| the location of | 1 |
| the philistines | 1 |
| them | 1 |
| there quickly | 1 |
| there that night | 1 |
| there will | 1 |
| throughout | 1 |
| to be there | 1 |
| to dwell | 1 |
| to it | 1 |
| to leave | 1 |
| to live there | 1 |
| to one of these cities | 1 |
| to that place | 1 |
| to them | 1 |
| to these cities | 1 |
| to which | 1 |
| upon it | 1 |
| was | 1 |
| was located | 1 |
| where there was | 1 |
| which contains | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| whither | 2 |
| and in it | 1 |
| and there | 1 |
| from thence | 1 |
| in thither | 1 |
| me thereof | 1 |
| there | 1 |
| therein | 1 |
| thereout | 1 |
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Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
Read word by wordNevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
Read word by wordThey worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordHe also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
Read word by wordThen Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
Read word by wordHe pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by wordAnd as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
Read word by wordOn the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordFor the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
Read word by wordThen Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
Read word by wordAs the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
Read word by wordthe Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
Read word by wordThese six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And David reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years,
Read word by wordThese were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.
Read word by wordThere they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
Read word by wordThese who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings as well as the Meunites who were there, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
Read word by wordand struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.
Read word by wordThen David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus), where the Jebusites inhabited the land.
Read word by wordHe was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At a place with a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.
Read word by wordThey spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.40
David and all Israel went up to Baalah of Judah (that is, Kiriath-jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.
Read word by wordAnd the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
Read word by wordSo David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.
Read word by wordThere the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
Read word by wordSo David left Asaph and his associates there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to minister there regularly according to the daily requirements,
Read word by wordAnd there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Read word by wordAt that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.
Read word by wordAnd Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
Read word by wordSolomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar at the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.
Read word by wordThe poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
Read word by word‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
Read word by wordBut now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
Read word by wordAnd there I have placed the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”
Read word by wordMay Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
Read word by wordand when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
Read word by wordThen Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.
Read word by wordFor I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
Read word by wordSolomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.
Read word by wordSo Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
Read word by wordTwelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
Read word by wordThus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
Read word by wordOn the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, where they blessed the LORD. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Beracah to this day.
Read word by wordSo they seized Athaliah as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.
Read word by wordFrom the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
Read word by wordWhen Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.
Read word by wordBut a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
Read word by wordThe Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.
Read word by wordand the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
Read word by wordAnd let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”
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