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Lexicon :: Strong's H5561 - sam

Aa
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 BoxExo 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:6 - Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7 - And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34 - And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:11 - And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:8 - And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15 - And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:28 - And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29 - And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38 - And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:27 - Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7 - And the priest is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar on which perfume is burned before the Lord in the Tent of meeting, draining out all the rest of the blood of the ox at the base of the altar of burned offering which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.
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