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Lexicon :: Strong's H5561 - sam

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סַם
Transliteration
sam
Pronunciation
sam
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to smell sweet
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1516a

Strong’s Definitions

סַם çam, sam; from an unused root meaning to smell sweet; an aroma:—sweet (spice).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H5561 in the following manner: sweet (14x), sweet spices (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H5561 in the following manner: sweet (14x), sweet spices (3x).

  1. spice

    1. a spice used in incense

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סַם çam, sam; from an unused root meaning to smell sweet; an aroma:—sweet (spice).
STRONGS H5561: Abbreviations
[סַם] 16 noun masculine spice, used in incense; — only plural absolute סַמִּים, and only P, Chronicles; Exodus 30:34 (twice in verse), elsewhere (הַ)סַּמִּים קְטֹרֶת incense of spices Exodus 25:6 + 8 times Exodus; Leviticus 4:7; Leviticus 16:12; Numbers 4:16; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 3:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

25:6; 30:34

Leviticus

4:7; 16:12

Numbers

4:16

2 Chronicles

2:3; 3:11

H5561

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5561 matches the Hebrew סַם (sam),
which occurs 16 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:6 - [olive] oil for lighting, [fn]balsam for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7 - “Aaron shall burn sweet and fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims and tends the lamps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34 -

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet and fragrant spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum, sweet and fragrant spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal amount of each—

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:11 - and the anointing oil and the sweet and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them according to all that I have commanded you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:8 - and [olive] oil for the lighting, and balsam for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15 - and the altar of incense and its carrying poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the screen (curtain) for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:28 - and spice and [olive] oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29 - He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38 - the golden altar [of incense], the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the [hanging] veil for the doorway of the tent;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:27 - he burned fragrant incense [as a symbol of prayer] on it, just as the LORD commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7 - ‘The priest shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense which is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. All the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering which is at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - “He shall take a censer full of burning coals from the [bronze] altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil [into the Most Holy Place],

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 -

“The responsibility of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is the oil for the light, the [fn]fragrant incense, the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil—the responsibility of all the tabernacle and everything that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - “Observe, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, dedicated to Him, to burn fragrant incense [of sweet spices] before Him, to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on Sabbaths, New Moons, and on the festivals of the LORD our God, as ordained forever in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - “Every morning and every evening they offer the burnt offerings and the fragrant incense to the LORD; and the [fn]showbread is set on the clean table [of pure gold], and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the charge of the LORD our God [that is, the obligation we have to Him], but you have abandoned (turned away from) Him.
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