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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
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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 - oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7 - Aharon shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:11 - the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:8 - oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15 - and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tent;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:28 - and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29 - He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38 - the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:27 - and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7 - The Kohen shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood of the bull out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door 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 coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - "The charge of El`azar the son of Aharon the Kohen shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Shabbatot, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - and they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also set they in order on the pure table; and the menorah of gold with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but you have forsaken him.
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