שום
Aramaic
Hebrew
Etymology 1
See under שָׂם (sám).
Verb
שׂוּם • (sum) or שׂוֹם • (som)
- bare infinitive of שָׂם (sam)
- Tanach, Jeremiah 42:15, with translation of the English Standard Version:
- אִם אַתֶּם שׂוֹם תְּשִׂמוּן פְּנֵיכֶם לָבֹא מִצְרַיִם
- im atém som t'simún p'nechém lavó mitsráyim
- If you set your faces to enter Egypt
- Tanach, Haggai 2:15, with Young's Literal Translation:
- מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּם אֶבֶן אֶל אֶבֶן בְּהֵיכַל יהוה
- mitérem sum éven el éven b'hechál YHVH
- Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah
Further reading
Etymology 2
From Aramaic שֻׁם (šum), indefinite and construct form of שְׁמָא (š'mā, “name”). The determiner is an extension of the noun.
Determiner
שׁוּם • (shúm)
- Some, any; found chiefly in negative contexts, as well as questions and conditional constructs.
- שום דבר לא קרה. ― shúm davár ló kará. ― Nothing happened.
- לא […] בשום צורה שהיא ― ló […] b'shúm tsurá shehí ― not […] in any way
- אין לי שום בעיה עם זה. ― éin lí shúm b'ayá ím zé. ― I don't have any problem with that.
Derived terms
Noun
שׁוּם • (shum)
Derived terms
- לְשׁוּם (l'shúm)
- מִשּׁוּם (mishúm), מִשּׁוּם מַה (mishúm ma), מִשּׁוּם שֶׁ־ (mishúm she-)
- עַל שׁוּם מַה (al shum ma), עַל שׁוּם (al shum)
Etymology 3
Root |
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שׁ־ו־ם (š-w-m) |
From Proto-Semitic *ṯūm-; cognate with Akkadian 𒋧 (šūmū), Aramaic תּוּמָא (tūmā), Arabic ثُوم (ṯūm).
References
- “שום” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שׁוֹשָׁן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ (ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם) (1984), →ISBN, volume 3 of 3 (ק to ת), page 1339.
- “שום” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
- H7762 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Further reading
שום on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Anagrams
Yiddish
Adverb
שום • (shum)
- not at all (intensifies a negative construction)
- איך האָב נישט קיין שום רויז!
- ikh hob nisht keyn shum royz!
- I don't have a single rose!
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