שם

• (noun, proper noun)
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃɛm/
  • (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃem/
  • (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃim/
• Rhymes: -em

From Proto-Semitic *šim-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *sim- (“name”). Cognate with Arabic اسم‎ (ism, “name”).

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1. a name
   • 1974, Zelda, Every Person Has a Name :

     לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתַן לוֹ אֱלֹהִים וְנָתְנוּ לוֹ אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ, / לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתְנוּ לוֹ קוֹמָתוֹ וְאֹפֶן חִיּוּכוֹ וְנָתַן לוֹ הָאָרִיג, […]

     Every person has a name that God gave him and that his father and mother gave him / Every person has a name that his stature and his way of smiling gave him and that the fabric gave him […]

2. a first name

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• H8034 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Compare Arabic ثَمَّ‎ (ṯamma). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

שָׁם • (shám)

1. there (somewhere at some distance from the speaker)

• כאן‎

• שָׁמָּה‎

• H8033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

שֵׁם • (shém) m

1. Shem.

• אַנְטִישֵׁמִי‎ (antishémi)
• אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת‎ (antishémiyut)
• שֵׁמִי‎ (shémi)

• H8035 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Compare Ge'ez ሤመ (śemä, “to appoint, to put”).

שָׂם • (sám) third-singular masculine past (pa'al construction, future יָשִׂים‎)

1. to put, place
2. to turn on (music, television, radio, etc.)
3. to put on, don (clothing, shoes, etc.)

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• (to turn on): הִדְלִיק‎ (hidlík), הִפְעִיל‎ (hif'íl)
• (to put on): (clothing) לָבַשׁ‎ (lavásh), (shoes) נָעַל‎ (na'ál), (hat) חָבַשׁ‎ (khavásh), (eyeglasses) הִרְכִּיב‎ (hirkív)

• שָׂם לֵב‎ (sám lév)

• H7760 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

שָׁם • (sham) third-singular masculine past (pa'al construction)

1. to assess, appraise: (determined value).

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• Redslob, Gustav Moritz (1872), “Zur hebräischen Wortforschung. שֵׁם”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 26, pages 751–756