Word study

Set

50 Hebrew and 10 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: set, sets, setting, settings. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “set” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • נָסַע nâsapull out or up, set out, journeytranslated this way 93 times of its 146 uses · Strong’s H5265Verb  ·  Translated: set 91, journeyed 4, moved 4, pulled 4

    Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

    Exodus 13:20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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  • שׂוּם sûmput, place, settranslated this way 79 times of its 560 uses · Strong’s H7760Verb  ·  Translated: put 84, set 71, make 45, made 39

    Genesis 28:18 Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

    Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

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  • נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 77 times of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb  ·  Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135

    Genesis 1:17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

    Genesis 9:13 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

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  • קוּם qûmarise, stand up, standtranslated this way 49 times of its 594 uses · Strong’s H6965Verb  ·  Translated: rise 68, got 61, set 44, Get 42

    Genesis 22:3 So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

    Exodus 24:13 So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.

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  • הָלַךְ hâlakgo, come, walktranslated this way 18 times of its 1,461 uses · Strong’s H1980Verb  ·  Translated: go 338, went 173, walk 116, Come 84

    Genesis 22:19 Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

    Genesis 28:10 Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

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  • נָצַב nâtsabtake one's stand, standtranslated this way 16 times of its 69 uses · Strong’s H5324Verb  ·  Translated: set 15, standing 14, stood 6, governors 3

    Genesis 21:29 and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

    Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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  • בּוֹא bôcome in, come, go in, gotranslated this way 14 times of its 2,442 uses · Strong’s H935Verb  ·  Translated: come 358, came 298, bring 209, brought 201

    Genesis 15:12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

    Genesis 15:17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

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  • שִׁית shîthput, settranslated this way 13 times of its 80 uses · Strong’s H7896Verb  ·  Translated: set 13, make 7, put 6, placed 5

    Genesis 30:40 Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

    1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

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  • כּוּן kûnbe firmtranslated this way 13 times of its 213 uses · Strong’s H3559Verb  ·  Translated: established 43, prepared 23, prepare 16, establish 15

    2 Chronicles 12:14 And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

    Ezra 3:3 They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD — both the morning and evening burnt offerings — even though they feared the people of the land.

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  • עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 12 times of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb  ·  Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112Full study and all 2,206 verses →
  • קוּם qûmarise, standtranslated this way 12 times of its 34 uses · Strong’s H6966Verb  ·  Translated: set 10, stood 3, appointed 2, arise 2

    Daniel 2:44 In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.

    Daniel 3:1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

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  • יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 10 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb  ·  Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78

    Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

    Genesis 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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  • נוּחַ nûachresttranslated this way 10 times of its 140 uses · Strong’s H5117Verb  ·  Translated: rest 20, leave 10, placed 9, set 7

    Exodus 16:23 He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

    Joshua 4:3 and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

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  • קָדַשׁ qâdashbe set apart, consecratedtranslated this way 10 times of its 169 uses · Strong’s H6942Verb  ·  Translated: consecrate 40, consecrated 33, dedicated 10, sanctifies 8

    Exodus 19:23 But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”

    Leviticus 21:8 You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy — I who set you apart.

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  • בָּדַל bâdalbe divided, separatetranslated this way 10 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s H914Verb  ·  Translated: separated 6, set apart 6, separate 6, distinguish 3

    Leviticus 20:24 But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance — a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

    Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

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  • עָלָה âlâhgo up, ascend, climbtranslated this way 9 times of its 873 uses · Strong’s H5927Verb  ·  Translated: go 118, went 107, brought 56, come 42

    Exodus 25:37 Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

    Numbers 8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.’”

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  • עָמַד âmadtake one's stand, standtranslated this way 9 times of its 508 uses · Strong’s H5975Verb  ·  Translated: stood 99, stand 95, standing 50, stands 12Full study and all 485 verses →
  • שָׁלַח shâlachsendtranslated this way 8 times of its 829 uses · Strong’s H7971Verb  ·  Translated: sent 334, send 126, go 43, sending 19

    Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

    Deuteronomy 15:12 If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

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  • רוּם rûmbe high, exalted, risetranslated this way 7 times of its 185 uses · Strong’s H7311Verb  ·  Translated: exalted 23, exalt 18, lift 14, raised 10

    Genesis 31:45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

    Numbers 31:28 Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.

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  • עָרַךְ ârakarrange or set in ordertranslated this way 7 times of its 75 uses · Strong’s H6186Verb  ·  Translated: arrayed 14, prepared 5, compare 5, set 4

    Exodus 40:4 Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.

    Leviticus 24:8 Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.

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  • יָצַת yâtsathkindle, burntranslated this way 7 times of its 26 uses · Strong’s H3341Verb  ·  Translated: kindle 5, fire 4, set 4, burned 3

    Judges 9:49 So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

    2 Samuel 14:30 Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

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  • מִשְׁבְּצָה mishbetsâhbrocade, settingtranslated this way 7 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s H4865Noun  ·  Translated: filigree settings 6, settings 1, filigree 1, embroidered 1

    Exodus 28:11 Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.

    Exodus 28:13 Fashion gold filigree settings

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  • יָצַג yâtsagset, placetranslated this way 6 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H3322Verb  ·  Translated: set 5, placed 2

    Genesis 30:38 Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

    Deuteronomy 28:56 The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

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  • מַחְבֶּרֶת machbereththing joined, place of joiningtranslated this way 6 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H4225Noun  ·  Translated: set 5, seam 2, first set 1

    Exodus 26:4 Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.

    Exodus 26:5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.

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  • חֵרֶם chêremdevoted thingtranslated this way 6 times of its 35 uses · Strong’s H2764Noun  ·  Translated: devoted 5, set apart for destruction 4, things devoted to destruction 4, net 4

    Leviticus 27:28 Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns — whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land — can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

    Deuteronomy 7:26 And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

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  • חֲלִיפָה chălîphâha changetranslated this way 6 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s H2487Noun  ·  Translated: sets 6

    Genesis 45:22 He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.

    Judges 14:12 “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

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  • שָׂרַף sâraphburntranslated this way 5 times of its 109 uses · Strong’s H8313Verb  ·  Translated: burned 59, burn 29, burns 3

    Judges 9:52 When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.

    1 Kings 9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

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  • חָרַם châramban, devote, exterminatetranslated this way 4 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H2763Verb  ·  Translated: devoted to destruction 12, devote to destruction 6, devote them to destruction 5, set apart for destruction 4

    Exodus 22:20 If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

    Leviticus 27:29 No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.

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  • חֹבֶרֶת chôberetha thing that joins or is joinedtranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H2279Noun  ·  Translated: set 3, first set 1

    Exodus 26:4 Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.

    Exodus 26:10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

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  • רָכַב râkabmount and ride, ridetranslated this way 4 times of its 77 uses · Strong’s H7392Verb  ·  Translated: riding 12, ride 9, mounted 6, rider 5

    2 Samuel 6:3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

    1 Kings 1:33 “Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

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  • מָבוֹא mâbôentrance, a coming in, enteringtranslated this way 4 times of its 23 uses · Strong’s H3996Noun  ·  Translated: entrance 10, sets 3, west 2

    Psalm 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

    Malachi 1:11 For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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  • מָלֵא mâlêbe full, filltranslated this way 4 times of its 242 uses · Strong’s H4390Verb  ·  Translated: filled 66, full 34, fill 31, complete 8

    Exodus 31:5 to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.

    Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

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  • שְׂבָכָה sebâkâhlattice-work, networktranslated this way 4 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H7639Noun  ·  Translated: network 8, sets of network 4, lattice 2, grating 1Full study and all 12 verses →
  • דָּרַךְ dâraktread, marchtranslated this way 3 times of its 61 uses · Strong’s H1869Verb  ·  Translated: bent 5, treads 4, tread 4, bend 4Full study and all 59 verses →
  • קָהָה qâhâhbe blunt, dulltranslated this way 3 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H6949Verb  ·  Translated: set on edge 3, dull 1Full study and all 4 verses →
  • מִלֻּאָה milluâhsettingtranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H4396Noun  ·  Translated: setting 1, filigree settings 1, settings 1Full study and all 3 verses →
  • רָדַף râdaphpursue, chase, persecutetranslated this way 2 times of its 142 uses · Strong’s H7291Verb  ·  Translated: pursued 36, pursue 35, pursues 9, pursuers 9Full study and all 135 verses →
  • רֶגֶל regelfoottranslated this way 2 times of its 213 uses · Strong’s H7272Noun  ·  Translated: feet 128, foot 45, legs 8, times 4Full study and all 203 verses →
  • גָּבַל gâbalbound, bordertranslated this way 2 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H1379Verb  ·  Translated: set up a boundary 1, Put a boundary around 1, set 1, border 1Full study and all 5 verses →
  • בַּד badseparationtranslated this way 2 times of its 163 uses · Strong’s H905Noun  ·  Translated: alone 43, poles 34, addition 26, only 12Full study and all 156 verses →
  • אֲשֶׁר ăsherparticle of relationtranslated this way 2 times of its 3,225 uses · Strong’s H834Pronoun  ·  Translated: that 886, who 451, as 247, which 160Full study and all 2,844 verses →
  • הָיָה hâyâhfall out, come to pass, become, betranslated this way 2 times of its 2,848 uses · Strong’s H1961Verb  ·  Translated: will be 206, become 178, came 169, was 151Full study and all 2,573 verses →
  • מַסַּע massapulling up, breaking camp, setting out, journeytranslated this way 2 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s H4550Noun  ·  Translated: journeys 2, set 2, journey 2Full study and all 11 verses →
  • חָשַׁק châshaqbe attached to, lovetranslated this way 2 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H2836Verb  ·  Translated: set his affection 2Full study and all 10 verses →
  • עִיר îrexcitementtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,034 uses · Strong’s H5892Noun  ·  Translated: city 583, cities 344, towns 21, town 13Full study and all 925 verses →
  • מָלַךְ mâlakbe or become king, or queen, reigntranslated this way 2 times of its 340 uses · Strong’s H4427Verb  ·  Translated: reigned 132, became king 68, reign 36, king 32Full study and all 283 verses →
  • יָצַק yâtsaqpour, cast, flowtranslated this way 2 times of its 50 uses · Strong’s H3332Verb  ·  Translated: pour 12, cast 10, poured 8, anointed 2Full study and all 48 verses →
  • יָשַׁב yâshabsit, remain, dwelltranslated this way 2 times of its 1,049 uses · Strong’s H3427Verb  ·  Translated: lived 103, dwell 89, live 84, sit 70Full study and all 960 verses →
  • פָּנִים pânîmface, beforetranslated this way 2 times of its 1,836 uses · Strong’s H6440Noun  ·  Translated: before 448, face 222, presence 147, before you 123Full study and all 1,671 verses →
  • שָׁוָה shâvâhbe even, smoothtranslated this way 2 times of its 22 uses · Strong’s H7737Verb  ·  Translated: makes 2, set 2, compares 2Full study and all 22 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

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  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.