sam · fragrant spices

What it means

sam (סַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fragrant spices”.

From which the incense was made.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Sweet-smelling spices for the incense.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Exodus×11
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×1
• 2 Chronicles×2

• Exodus 25:6

  oil for the light, spices for the oil of anointing and for the fragrant incense;

• Exodus 30:7

  Aaron shall offer up in smoke on it fragrant incense; every morning, when he tends the lamps, he shall offer it up in smoke,

• Exodus 30:34

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take for yourself fragrant spices: resin, onycha, and galbanum, fragrant spices with pure frankincense; in equal parts it shall be.

• Exodus 31:11

  and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”

• Exodus 35:8

  and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense;

• Exodus 35:15

  and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance for the entrance of the dwelling;

• Exodus 35:28

  and the spice and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

• Exodus 37:29

  And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

• Exodus 39:38

  and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance of the tent;

• Exodus 40:27

  and he offered up in smoke on it fragrant incense, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 4:7

  The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before YHWH that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 16:12

  And he shall take a full censer of coals of fire from the altar before YHWH, and two handfuls of fine fragrant incense, and bring it inside the veil.

• Numbers 4:16

  And the oversight of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil, the oversight of the whole dwelling and of all that is in it, in the Holy Place and in its utensils.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:4

  Look, I am building a house for the name of YHWH my Elohim, to consecrate it to him, to offer up in smoke fragrant incense before him, and for the continual row of bread, and burnt offerings in the morning and in the evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons and at the appointed times of YHWH our Elohim; forever this is upon Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 13:11

  They offer up in smoke to YHWH burnt offerings every morning and every evening, and fragrant incense; they set the row of bread on the pure table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening; for we keep the charge of YHWH our Elohim, but you have abandoned him.

And 1 more times.