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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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.
Read word by wordSix 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.
Read word by worddesignate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
Read word by wordThese 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordBut if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
Read word by wordWhere 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.’”
Read word by wordThe LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
Read word by wordJoshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordSee, 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.
Read word by wordAt 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordAnd there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordto 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:
Read word by wordRemember 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.
Read word by wordThese 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,
Read word by wordBut He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.
Read word by wordWhen 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—
Read word by wordOtherwise, 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.’
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordThe Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
Read word by wordFrom there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
Read word by wordYou 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,
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordBut the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordDestroy 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.
Read word by wordInstead, 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.
Read word by wordTo 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.
Read word by wordThere, 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.
Read word by wordthen 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.
Read word by wordyou 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.
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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,
Read word by wordIf, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.13
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.
Read word by wordBut 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,
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordNow if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
Read word by wordthen he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordNow 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:
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