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Lexicon :: Strong's H2856 - ḥāṯam

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חָתַם
Transliteration
ḥāṯam
Pronunciation
khaw-tham'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 780

Strong’s Definitions

חָתַם châtham, khaw-tham'; a primitive root; to close up; especially to seal:—make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's H2856 in the following manner: seal (18x), seal up (6x), marked (1x), stopped (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's H2856 in the following manner: seal (18x), seal up (6x), marked (1x), stopped (1x), variant (1x).

  1. to seal, seal up, affix a seal

    1. (Qal)

      1. to seal, affix one's seal

      2. to seal up, fasten up by sealing

    2. (Niphal) to seal

    3. (Piel) to lock up

    4. (Hiphil) to be stopped

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָתַם châtham, khaw-tham'; a primitive root; to close up; especially to seal:—make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.
STRONGS H2856: Abbreviations
† חָתַם verb seal, affix seal, seal up (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲתַם, Mtxo; Ethiopic ኀተመ፡ Arabic خَتَمَ (whence خَاتَمً) is loan-word according to Frä252) —
Qal Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַחְתֹּם Job 9:7; Job 33:6, יַחְתּוֺם Job 37:7, וַיַּחְתֹּם Esther 8:10, etc.; Imperative חֲתֹם Daniel 12:4, חֲתוֺם Isaiah 8:16, חִתְמוּ Esther 8:8; Infinitive absolute חָתוֺם Jeremiah 32:44; construct לַחְתֹּם Daniel 9:24, + Daniel 9:24 Kt (Qr לְהָתֵם); Participle active חוֺתֵם Ezekiel 28:12; pass. חָתוּם Deuteronomy 32:24 + 2 times, etc.; —
1. seal, affix one's seal, in attestation; seal with king's seal (בְּחֹתָמוֺ) 1 Kings 21:8, בְּטַבַּעַת המלך Esther 8:8, 10; of covenant with י׳, attested by seal (passive) Nehemiah 10:1; Nehemiah 10:2; figurative, of י׳ putting his seal upon (בְּ) discipline, i.e. ratifying it, Job 33:16; perhaps also upon hand of man (that man may know י׳'s ways) Job 37:7 see De; Di below 2. seal up hand of man, so that he cannot work with it (in winter).
2. seal up, fasten up by sealing, a deed of sale Jeremiah 32:10, 11 (opposed to הַגָּלוּי that which was left open), Jeremiah 32:14; Jeremiah 32:44, a book of prophecy Daniel 12:4 (|| סְתֹם הַדְּבָרים), compare Daniel 12:9 (|| id.), Daniel 9:24b; so in simile of unintelligible prophecy Isaiah 29:11 (twice in verse); חֲתֹם תּוֺרָה בְּלְמֻּדָ֑י Isaiah 8:16 seal up the teaching among my disciples, i.e. keep it securely (|| צוֺר); of י׳'s remembrance of offences חָתוּם בְּאוֺצְרֹתָ֑י Deuteronomy 32:34 (|| כָּמֻס עְמָּדִי), so פִּשְׁעִי בִּצְרוֺר חָתוּם Job 14:17 (|| עַל־עֲוֹנִי וַתִּטְפֹּל); מַעְיָן חָתוּם Songs 4:12 a fountain sealed up, metaphor of chaste woman (|| גַּן (גַּל) נָעוּל); וּבְעַד כּוֺכָבִים יַח׳ Job 9:7 and about the stars he putteth a seal (|| of forbidding sun to rise). — אַתָּה חוֺתֵם תָּכְנִית Ezekiel 28:12 is obscure: thou wast one sealing proportion, i.e. perfection, — wast complete perfection, Ges Sm.; wast a sealer of symmetry see Da; wast a seal (ring) — i.e. חוֺתַם construct — of proportion Manuscripts Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Hi compare Ew; text perhaps corrupt, see suggestions in Co. — Daniel 9:24a read Qr לְהָתֵם (see תמם). Job 33:16; Job 37:7 see below 1.
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular [or Participle?] נִכְתָּ֔ב וְנֶחְתָּ֖ם Esther 3:12 (it was) written and sealed בְּטַבַּעַת הַמֶּלֶךְ; Infinitive absolute וְנַחְתּוֺם Esther 8:8 (continuing participle נִכְתָּ֣ב) also + בְּטַבַּעַת הַמּ׳; both passive of Qal 1.
Pi. Perfect 3rd person plural יוֺמָם חִתְּמוּלָֿמוֺ Job 24:16 literally by day they seal up for themselves, i.e. according to most, they shut themselves up, do not shew themselves (|| לֹא יָדְעוּ אוֺר); Greek Version of the LXX C has ἡμέρας ἐσφράγισαν εἀυτοῖ ς (B and others εἁυτους), whence Siegf conjecture plausibly ל׳ יָמִים ח׳ they seal up the days unto themselves, i.e. daytime is for them sealed up and unused.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular אוֺהֶֿחְתִּים בְּשָׁרוֺ מִזּוֺבוֺ Leviticus 15:3 or hath his flesh (genital organ) shewn stoppage by reason of his flux.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2857.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

15:3

Deuteronomy

32:24; 32:34

1 Kings

21:8

Nehemiah

10:1; 10:2

Esther

3:12; 8:8; 8:8; 8:8; 8:10; 8:10

Job

9:7; 9:7; 14:17; 24:16; 33:6; 33:16; 33:16; 37:7; 37:7; 37:7

Song of Songs

4:12

Isaiah

8:16; 8:16; 29:11

Jeremiah

32:10; 32:11; 32:14; 32:44; 32:44

Ezekiel

28:12; 28:12

Daniel

9:24; 9:24; 9:24; 9:24; 12:4; 12:4; 12:9

H2856

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Strong's Number H2856 matches the Hebrew חָתַם (ḥāṯam),
which occurs 26 times in 24 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3 - And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhœa out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:34 - Lo! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my treasures?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 - (LXX 20:8) And she wrote a [fn]letter in the name of Achaab, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders, and to the [fn]freemen who dwelt with Nabuthai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:38 - (LXX 10:1) And in regard to all these circumstances we make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:1 - (LXX 10:2) And over them that sealed were Neemias the Artasastha, son of Achalia, and Zedekias,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Aman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their several languages, in the name of king Artaxerxes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8 - Write ye also in my name, as it seems good to you, and seal it with my ring: for whatever orders are written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, it is not lawful to gainsay them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10 - And they were written by order of the king, and sealed with his ring, and they sent the letters by the posts:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:17 - And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:16 - then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:7 - He seals up the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 - My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:16 - Then shall those who seal themselves that they may [fn]not learn the law be made manifest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:11 - And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - (LXX 39:10) And I wrote it in a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:11 - (LXX 39:11) And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:14 - (LXX 39:14) Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:44 - (LXX 39:44) And they shall buy fields for money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:12 - Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:24 - Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:4 - And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:9 - And he said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end.
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