Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2368
חוֹתָם
chothamkho-thawm'
signet
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôwthâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2368is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2368
a signature-ring
The King James renders it: seal, signet.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chotham is rendered "signet". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:18“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
Genesis 38:18חֹתָֽמְךָ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a seal8
- like the seal2
- a signet-ring1
- like the signet-ring1
- seal your1
- with seal his1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חוֹתָ֔ם2
- בְּחֹתָמ֑וֹ1
- חוֹתָם֙1
- חוֹתָ֑ם1
- חוֹתָ֥ם1
- חוֹתָ֖ם1
- חֹתָ֗ם1
- חֹתָ֔ם1
- חֹתָם֙1
- חֹתָֽמְךָ֙1
- כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם1
- כַּֽחוֹתָם֙1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Genesis
one use
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- חֹתָֽמְךָ֙chotamekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: seal your
Exodus
six uses
Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.
- חֹתָ֗םchotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a seal
The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
- חוֹתָם֙chotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a seal
You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- חֹתָ֔םchotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a seal
They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
- חוֹתָ֔םchotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a seal
The twelve stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel. Each stone was engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
- חֹתָם֙chotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a seal
They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- חוֹתָ֔םchotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a seal
1 Kings
one use
Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
- בְּחֹתָמ֑וֹbechotamopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: with seal his
Job
two uses
Song of Solomon
two uses
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- כַֽחוֹתָ֜םkhachotampreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the seal
- כַּֽחוֹתָם֙kachotampreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the seal
Jeremiah
one use
“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- חוֹתָ֖םchotamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a signet-ring
Haggai
one use
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
- כַּֽחוֹתָ֑םkachotampreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the signet-ring
The letters
Gematria 454· 1,014 mispar gadol
Where it leads
Studies that open this word2
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.