Hebrew verb · H5640
סָתַם
sathamsaw-tham'
to close; to stopper
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâtham
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5640is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5640
to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret
The King James renders it: closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (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
satham is rendered "to close; to stopper". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to close".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 26:15So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Genesis 26:15סִתְּמ֣וּם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to close, and to stopper.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to closeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 26:15So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in… |
| to stopperStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- keep secret2
- and in a kept secret1
- and they had stopped up them1
- and they stopped up1
- he has shut out1
- he stopped up1
- kept secret1
- secret1
- they stopped up1
- they stopped up them1
- to be closed1
- to stop up1
and 1 more, 14 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סָתַר | sathar | to hide | Uses80 |
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- וּ֝בְסָתֻ֗ם1
- וַֽיִּסְתְּמוּ֙1
- וַיְסַתְּמ֣וּם1
- יִסְתֹּ֙מוּ֙1
- לְהִסָּתֵ֑ם1
- לִסְתּוֹם֙1
- סָת֖וּם1
- סְתֹ֣ם1
- סְתֹ֧ם1
- סָתַם֙1
- סִתְּמ֣וּם1
- סְתֻמִ֧ים1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqv2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HC/R/Vqsmsa
- Hc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/VNcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpp3cp/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HVqsmpa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVqsmsa
Genesis
two uses
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
- סִתְּמ֣וּםsitemumverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they stopped up them
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
- וַיְסַתְּמ֣וּםvaysatemumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they had stopped up them
2 Kings
two uses
And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- תִּסְתֹּ֑מוּtistomuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will stop up
They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.
- יִסְתֹּ֙מוּ֙yistomuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they stopped up
2 Chronicles
three uses
he consulted with his leaders and commanders about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.
- לִסְתּוֹם֙listompreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to stop up
Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
- וַֽיִּסְתְּמוּ֙vaiyistemuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they stopped up
It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
- סָתַם֙satamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he stopped up
Nehemiah
one use
When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
- לְהִסָּתֵ֑םlehisatempreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be closed
Psalms
one use
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- וּ֝בְסָתֻ֗םuvesatumconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and in a kept secret
Lamentations
one use
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- שָׂתַ֖םsatamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has shut out
Ezekiel
one use
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
- סָת֖וּםsatumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: secret
Daniel
three uses
The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
- סְתֹ֣םsetomverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: keep secret
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.”
- סְתֹ֧םsetomverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: keep secret
“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- סְתֻמִ֧יםsetumimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: kept secret
The letters
Gematria 500· 1,060 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.