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Hebrew verb · H2856

חָתַם

chathamkhaw-tham'

to seal

26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: châtham

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2856is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 25
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2856

to close up; especially to seal

The King James renders it: make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.

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

chatham is rendered "to seal". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 15:3This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.

The first use

This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

Leviticus 15:3הֶחְתִּ֤ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the sealed5
  • sealed up3
  • he puts a seal2
  • and he sealed1
  • and I sealed1
  • and it is sealed1
  • and seal1
  • and seal up1
  • and sealed1
  • and sealed up1
  • and she sealed1
  • and they will seal1

and 7 more, 26 uses in all

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.

חָתַתchathathto to be dismayedUses52
חָתַןchathanrelativeUses33
חָתַרchatharto digUses8
חָתַלchathalto entwineUses2
חָתַףchathaphto seizeUses1
חָתַךְchathakto determineUses1

All 26, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

25 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

  • יַחְתֹּֽם׃2
  • הֶֽחָת֔וּם1
  • הֶֽחָתוּם֒1
  • הֶֽחָת֛וּם1
  • הֶחָת֗וּם1
  • הַחֲתוּמִ֑ים1
  • הֶחְתִּ֤ים1
  • וָֽאֶחְתֹּ֔ם1
  • וְחָתוֹם֮1
  • וַחֲתֹ֥ם1
  • וְחִתְמ֖וּ1
  • וַחֲתֻמִ֛ים1

and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular4HTd/Vqsmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular4HVqsmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolute1HC/VNaa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HC/VNrmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HC/Vqaa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HC/Vqsmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vqv2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqv2ms
  • Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs

Leviticus

one use
  • This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

    Leviticus 15:3

    • הֶחְתִּ֤יםhechtimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been obstructed

Deuteronomy

one use
  • “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

    Deuteronomy 32:34

    • חָתֻ֖םchatumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sealed up

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.

    1 Kings 21:8

    • וַתַּחְתֹּ֖םvatachtomHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she sealed

Nehemiah

two uses
  • In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”

    Nehemiah 9:38

    • הֶֽחָת֔וּםhechatumthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the sealed
  • Now these were the ones who sealed the document: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah,

    Nehemiah 10:1

    • הַחֲתוּמִ֑יםhachatumimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: the sealed

Esther

four uses
  • On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.

    Esther 3:12

    • וְנֶחְתָּ֖םvenechtamconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and sealed
  • Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”

    Esther 8:8

    • וְחִתְמ֖וּvechitmuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and seal
    • וְנַחְתּ֛וֹםvenachtomconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolutetagged: and it is sealed
  • Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

    Esther 8:10

    • וַיַּחְתֹּ֖םvaiyachtomHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sealed

Job

five uses
  • He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

    Job 9:7

    • יַחְתֹּֽם׃yachtomverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he puts a seal
  • My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

    Job 14:17

    • חָתֻ֣םchatumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sealed up
  • In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

    Job 24:16

    • חִתְּמוּ־chitemu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they seal up
  • He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

    Job 33:16

    • יַחְתֹּֽם׃yachtomverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will seal
  • He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

    Job 37:7

    • יַחְתּ֑וֹםyachtomverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he puts a seal

Song of Solomon

one use
  • My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

    Song of Solomon 4:12

    • חָתֽוּם׃chatumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sealed up

Isaiah

three uses
  • Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

    Isaiah 8:16

    • חֲת֥וֹםchatomverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: seal up
  • And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

    Isaiah 29:11

    • הֶֽחָתוּם֒hechatumthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the sealed
    • חָת֖וּםchatumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sealed

Jeremiah

four uses
  • I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

    Jeremiah 32:10

    • וָֽאֶחְתֹּ֔םvaechtomHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I sealed
  • Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

    Jeremiah 32:11

    • הֶֽחָת֛וּםhechatumthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the sealed
  • “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.

    Jeremiah 32:14

    • הֶחָת֗וּםhechatumthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the sealed
  • Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”

    Jeremiah 32:44

    • וְחָתוֹם֮vechatomconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and they will seal

Ezekiel

one use
  • “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

    Ezekiel 28:12

    • חוֹתֵ֣םchotemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: seals

Daniel

three uses
  • Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

    Daniel 9:24

    • וְלַחְתֹּם֙velachtomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to seal up
  • But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”

    Daniel 12:4

    • וַחֲתֹ֥םvachatomconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and seal up
  • “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

    Daniel 12:9

    • וַחֲתֻמִ֛יםvachatumimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: and sealed up

The letters

Gematria 448· 1,008 mispar gadol

Where it leads

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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