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 |
Page 2 of 15. 732 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“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.
Read word by wordNow 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,”
Read word by wordOn 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.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordLet 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.
Read word by wordI am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
Read word by wordand he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
Read word by wordJacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.14
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.30
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.
Read word by wordThere he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordThere 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.
Read word by wordJacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Read word by wordJacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Read word by wordThere Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, 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.
Read word by wordOne day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.
Read word by wordSo 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,
Read word by wordAnd the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.
Read word by wordand imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
Read word by wordNow 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.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordand they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
Read word by wordSince the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
Read word by wordJoseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
Read word by wordWhen Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
Read word by wordAnd 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.’
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordNow 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).
Read word by wordYet 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,
Read word by wordThere Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
Read word by wordmy 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.”
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.18
The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
Read word by wordEven 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.”
Read word by wordThe blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; 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.
Read word by wordDuring 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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,
Read word by wordThen they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
Read word by wordSo 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.”
Read word by wordBut 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?”
Read word by wordBehold, 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.
Read word by wordMoses’ 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.
Read word by wordAfter they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
Read word by wordAnd the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Read word by wordIf, 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.
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