shit · put, set

What it means

shit (שִׁית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “put, set”.

Put, place, set; appoint.

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. To station something somewhere; sow enmity.
2. To turn someone into something.
3. "Set the heart": fix one's attention and interest on something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To put, place; from there to establish, fix, and in set phrases, to pay attention (‘set the heart’). BDB: to place, put, in very many applications: appoint, set, consider.

• “I will put enmity” Genesis 3:15
• Putting something on something: the hand, a child in the bosom Genesis 48:14Ruth 4:16
• “All things you put under his feet” Psalms 8:6Psalms 110:1
• Not taking to heart: paying no attention Exodus 7:23
• Giving, granting: the name of Seth Genesis 4:25

Historical and cultural background

The name Seth is explained with this verb: Eve named him so because she said, “for Elohim has granted me another offspring in place of Abel” (Genesis 4:25); the Hebrew says literally ‘has set’.

How we translate it

“Set” 28 times, “put” 14, “make” 10, “lay” 3. In set phrases it is translated by the sense: “he did not take even this to heart” where the Hebrew says that he did not set his heart (Exodus 7:23), “has granted” in Genesis 4:25.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• set ×28
• put ×14
• Make ×10
• He made ×3
• lay ×3
• you will make them ×3
• imposed ×2
• Do not join ×1
• I have placed ×1
• I will bring ×1
• others ×17

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×8
• Numbers×2
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×8
• Psalms×30
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×7
• Hosea×2

• Genesis 3:15

  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.”

• Genesis 4:25

  And Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and called his name Seth, “for Elohim has granted me another offspring in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.”

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

• Genesis 41:33

  Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 46:4

  I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.”

• Genesis 48:14

  But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was displeasing in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.

• Exodus 7:23

  Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.

• Exodus 10:1

  YHWH said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart and the heart of his servants insensitive, in order to put these signs of mine in their midst,

• Exodus 21:22

  When men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

• Exodus 21:30

  If a compensation is imposed on him, he shall give as the ransom for his life whatever is imposed on him.

• Exodus 23:1

  You shall not spread a false report. Do not join hands with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Exodus 23:31

  I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I will give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out from before you.

• Exodus 33:4

  When the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

• Numbers 12:11

  And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please do not lay on us the sin in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

• Numbers 24:1

  When Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of YHWH to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to meet omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

• Ruth 3:15

  And he said, “Bring the shawl that is on you and hold it out.” So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley and put it on her; then he went into the city.

• Ruth 4:16

  Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom and was the one who reared him.

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises the poor from the dust; from the ash heap he lifts the needy, to make them sit with nobles, and he makes them inherit a throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are YHWH’s, and on them he has set the world.

• 1 Samuel 4:20

  And about the time of her death the women standing by her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she did not answer or set her heart to it.

• 2 Samuel 13:20

  Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now then, my sister, keep quiet; he is your brother. Do not set your heart on this matter.” So Tamar lived, desolate, in the house of Absalom her brother.

• 2 Samuel 19:28

  For all my father’s house were nothing but men deserving death before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What right do I still have to cry out any more to the king?”

• 2 Samuel 22:12

  He made darkness around him his booths, a mass of waters, thick clouds.

• 1 Kings 11:34

  Yet I will not take all the kingdom from his hand, but I will make him chief all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

• Job 7:17

  What is a mortal, that you magnify him, and that you set your heart on him,

• Job 9:33

  There is not between us an arbiter who might lay his hand on us both.

• Job 10:20

  Are not my days few? So cease, and turn away from me, that I may brighten up a little,

• Job 14:13

  Who would grant that in Sheol you would keep me hidden, that you would conceal me until your anger turned away, that you would set me a limit and remember me.

• Job 22:24

  and lay gold on the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the rocks of the brooks,

• Job 30:1

  But now they laugh at me, those younger than I in days, whose fathers I despised to put with the dogs of my flock.

• Job 38:11

  and said, ‘As far as here you may come, and no farther; and here a limit shall be set to the haughtiness of your waves’?

• Job 38:36

  Who has put wisdom in the inmost parts, or who has given understanding to the mind?

• Psalms 3:6

  I will not fear the tens of thousands of the people who have set themselves against me all around.

• Psalms 8:6

  You make him rule over the works of your hands; all things you put under his feet:

• Psalms 9:20

  Put terror on them, YHWH; let the nations know that they are mortals. Selah.

• Psalms 12:5

  “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, now I will arise,” says YHWH; “I will set in safety the one they snort at.”

• Psalms 13:2

  How long will I put counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart by day? How long will my enemy rise up over me?

• Psalms 17:11

  At our steps, now they have surrounded us; they set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

• Psalms 18:11

  He made darkness his hiding place, his booth around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds.

• Psalms 21:3

  For you go out to meet him with blessings of good; you set on his head a crown of fine gold.

And 43 more times.