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שֻׁם שֶׁם שְׁמָא‏ n.m. name

name Com. Ezra5:4 : מַן־אִנּוּן שְׁמָהָת גֻּבְרַיָּא דִּי־דְנָה בִנְיָנָא בָּנַיִן‏ what are the names [lit.: who are they, the names] of the men who are building this building?. PJ Gen2:11 : שום חד פישון‏ the name of one is Pishon.

fame, reputation Qumran, JLAtg, Gal, PTA, Syr, Man, LJLA. 4QLevi^bar3..3 : ותח֗ל֗ל֗ שמה ושם אבוה‏ she defames her name and her father's name. TgO Gen6:4 . GT AA Deut26:19 : לשם טב‏ . PJ Gen6:4 : גיברין דמעלמא אינשי שמהן‏ famous heroes of old. d_ : famous JLAtg, Syr. TgO Gen6:4 : גִיבָרַיָא דְמֵיעָלְמָא אֲנָשִין דִשמָא‏ the famous heroes of old.

See also s.v. lšm prep., a usage often difficult to distinguish semantically from l_ prep. preceding this word.
We assume that in JLAtg there was at one time a distinction of a sort (i.e., idiolectal and/or between absolute and construct forms) among the three attested forms with short /o/,/u/, and /e/ vowels, but the versions of the texts at our disposal do not provide any clear evidence.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 555b; DJBA: 1153b; Jastrow: 1590; Levy Ch-W: 2:491; Tal Sam: 907; DNWSI: 1155; DJA: 83a; Cook,Qumran: 237;

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Derivatives:

lšm prep. for the sake of

mšwm prep. because of

mšwm conj. because, since

ˁl šm (ˁal šum, ˁal šmā d_) prep. in the name of