Shum (שׁוּם) means garlic in Hebrew.
It is a masculine noun, and the Hebrew dictionary's own definitions are below.
garlic
The stress falls on the part in bold.
The dictionary gives 2 meanings for Shum.
The definitions are in Hebrew, as the dictionary writes them.
- 1בוטניקהסוג Allium, צמחים בעלי בצל. בארץ ישראל כ־25 מינים.
- 2צמח מאכל תרבותי מהסוג שום (1). החלק הנאכל הם הבצלצלים, שִׁנֵּי שום, המשמשים בעקר לתיבול מאכלים כשהם חיים או מבושלים.
זָכַרְנוּ אֶת-הַדָּגָה אֲשֶׁר-נֹאכַל בְּמִצְרַיִם חִנָּם אֵת הַקִּשֻּׁאִים וְאֵת הָאֲבַטִּחִים וְאֶת-הֶחָצִיר וְאֶת-הַבְּצָלִים וְאֶת-הַשּׁוּמִים
The verses are quoted from the Hebrew Bible, with the word in bold.
The word Shum is a masculine noun.
- Written with vowel points
- שׁוּם
- Written without vowel points
- שום
- Said
- shum
- Root
- ש־ו־מ
- Plural
- שׁוּמִים
- Inflections
- ר' שׁוּמִים
- Gematria
- 346
This is how Shum is said in other languages.
- English
- garlic
- Arabic
- ثوم
- Russian
- чеснок
- French
- ail
- Spanish
- ajo
- German
- Knoblauch
These words rhyme with Shum.
The word Shum is part of these phrases and sayings.
- שום בעל בכי
- כותש שום
- לחם שום
- כקליפת השום
- שן שום
A word with a dashed border has no page of its own in this dictionary yet.
The word Shum comes from the root ש־ו־מ, like these words.
This is where the word Shum comes from.
המילה משותפת למספר לשונות שמיות; באכדית: 205, בערבית: ثُوم, ארמית תוּם (בחילופי ש־ת מהאות הפרוטו־שמית ṯ).
These words come before and after Shum in the dictionary.
These are the questions people ask about the word Shum.
What does Shum (שׁוּם) mean in Hebrew?
Shum (שׁוּם) means garlic. It is said shum, with the stress on shum.
What rhymes with Shum (שׁוּם)?
Words that rhyme with Shum (שׁוּם) include תחום, חום, תשלום, תחום, זיהום, and מום.
Is Shum (שׁוּם) masculine or feminine?
The word Shum (שׁוּם) is a masculine noun, and its plural is שׁוּמִים.
The definitions, pronunciation, synonyms and translations on this page are adapted from the entry שום of the Hebrew Wiktionary, read on 1 November 2026, and are shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.