שׁוּם II m. (preced.) 1) valuation, estimate. B. Kam. I, 3 ש׳ כסף, v. שָׁוֶה. Tosef. B. Mets. IX, 9 השם קמתו … את שׁוּמוֹ וכ׳ if one prizes (and buys) his neighbor’s standing corn as ten Cors of wheat, and it yields less or more, the seller has to deliver the estimated quantity (no more nor less); Rabbi Judah says, עשה בפחות נותן לו את שומו וכ׳ if it yielded less, he has to deliver the estimated quantity, if more, he has to deliver whatever it yielded; a. fr.—Esp. the description and valuation of seized property and its advertisement for public sale. Arakh. VI, 1 ש׳ היתומים שלשים יום the advertisement of orphans’ property must be made thirty days in succession (before the sale); Tosef. ib. IV, 1. Tosef. Keth. XI, 2; B. Bath. 107ᵃ שלשה שירדו לש׳ וכ׳ if of three experts called to appraise seized property, one says, it is worth a Maneh &c.; a. fr. —2) appraised goods brought into marriage by the wife. Keth. VI, 3 (66ᵃ) פסקה … וכנגד הש׳ וכ׳ if she promises to bring him a thousand Denars, he must obligate himself for fifteen Maneh (as her jointure); but for appraised goods brought to him, he obligates himself for one fifth less than the appraised value. Ib. ש׳ במנה ושוה מנה וכ׳ (Y. ed. ש׳ מנה) if the agreement reads, ‘the goods are charged to the husband for one Maneh and worth a Maneh’, he can claim only one Maneh’s worth of goods; ש׳ במנה היא וכ׳ but if it reads merely, ‘the goods are charged for one Maneh’, she must bring in the value of thirty-one Selaim and one Denar (Tosaf.; differ. in Rashi). Tosef. ib. VI, 6 מקום … מן הש׳ וכ׳ where the usage is not to charge the husband less than the appraised value &c.; a. fr. —3) (Chaldaism) name, title; לְשׁוּם in the name of, for the sake of, for the purpose of, in the capacity of. Gitt. IV, 4 עבד … אם לש׳ עבד וכ׳ if a slave was taken captive, and some one redeemed him: if he redeemed him as a slave, he may be held as a slave (of his redeemer), if as a freed man &c. Ib. III, 1 כל גט שנכתב שלא לש׳ אשה a letter of divorce not written with the intention to be used for a special woman. Ib. VIII, 5 כתב לש׳ מלכות אחרת if a letter of divorce is dated in the name of a strange government; (Bab. ed. 79ᵇ שאינה הוגנת, v. הוּגָּן). Yeb. 24ᵇ איש שנתגייר לש׳ אשה a man that embraced the Jewish religion for the sake of a woman; לש׳ שולחן מלכים for the sake of the royal table (v. שׁוּלְחָן); לש׳ עבדי שלמה for the sake of being one of Solomon’s servants; a. v. fr.— [Ib. 47ᵇ לשֵׁם שפחות in her capacity as a slave; לשם שחרור with the purpose of making her a freed woman; a. fr.]—מִשּׁוּם a) in the name of. Maas. Sh. III, 6 ר"ש … מש׳ ר׳ יוסי R. S. ben J. says in behalf of R. José (quoting R. J. as author). Eduy. VIII, 5; a. v. fr.—b) because of, as coming under the category of; for the sake of (preventing). Bets. 2ᵇ, a. fr. גזדה מש׳, v. גְּזֵרָה. Sabb. 17ᵇ מש׳ שמנן, v. גָּזַר. Ab. Zar. 26ᵃ, a. fr. מש׳ איבה, v. אֵיבָה. Sabb. 70ᵇ כלום פריש … מש׳ מלאכות … מש׳ שבת does any one abstain from doing a thing on the Sabbath for any reason but because of the prohibition of labors, and does one abstain from any labor for any reason, but because of the Sabbath? Ib. 73ᵇ חייב מש׳ נוטע is guilty, because the act comes under the category of planting. Kil. I, 9 אינו חושש לא מש׳ כלאים וכ׳ he need not hesitate to use it either on the ground of forbidden mixture, or on the ground of the Sabbatical year (in which planting is forbidden), or because it is subject to tithes. Ib. IX, 8 אין אפור מש׳ וכ׳ nothing is forbidden as mixture of wool and linen unless it is spun &c.; a. v. fr.—Ber. 5ᵇ מש׳ תורה דלא וכ׳ (dost thou weep) on account of the Law, that thou hast not attained much?; או מש׳ מזוני or on account of thy support (that thou art poor)?—משום שֶׁ־, (Chald.) מש׳ דְּ־; על שום שֶׁ־, (Chald.) על ש׳ ד־ because. Pes. X, 5 פסח על ש׳ שפסח וכ׳ the Passover sacrifice is eaten, because the Lord passed over &c. Y. Naz. II, beg. 51ᵈ מש׳ שהוציא וכ׳ because he uttered the word nazir. Keth. 63ᵇ מש׳ דרב זביד וכ׳ because Rab Zebid is a great man &c.; a. v. fr.