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Hebrew verb · H7852

שָׂטַם

satamsaw-tam'

to hate

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

Concordance spelling: sâṭam

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7852is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 6
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7852

properly, to lurk for, i.e. persecute

The King James renders it: hate, oppose self against.

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

satam is rendered "to hate". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
  • The Greek text spells it six different ways.

The first use

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 27:41וַיִּשְׂטֹ֤ם

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

Where the word stands

Three of the word's six uses are in Genesis.

The other 36 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

  • and he bore a grudge against1
  • and it has assailed me1
  • and they bear a grudge him1
  • he will bear a grudge us1
  • they are hostile to me1
  • you are hostile to me1

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.

שָׂטָןsatanSatanUses27
שָׂטָהsatahto turn asideUses6
שָׂטַןsatanto opposeUses6

All 6, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

6 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

  • וַיִּשְׂטֹ֤ם1
  • וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֻ֖הוּ1
  • וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֵ֗נִי1
  • יִשְׂטְמֽוּנִי׃1
  • יִשְׂטְמֵ֖נוּ1
  • תִשְׂטְמֵֽנִי׃1

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi2ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi3mp/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HVqi3ms/Sp1bp

Genesis

three uses
  • Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

    Genesis 27:41

    • וַיִּשְׂטֹ֤םvaiyistomHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bore a grudge against
  • The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

    Genesis 49:23

    • וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֻ֖הוּvaiyistemuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they bear a grudge him
  • When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”

    Genesis 50:15

    • יִשְׂטְמֵ֖נוּyistemenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he will bear a grudge us

Job

two uses
  • His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

    Job 16:9

    • וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֵ֗נִיvaiyistemeniHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and it has assailed me
  • You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

    Job 30:21

    • תִשְׂטְמֵֽנִי׃tistemeniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you are hostile to me

Psalms

one use
  • at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

    Psalms 55:3

    • יִשְׂטְמֽוּנִי׃yistemuniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they are hostile to me

The letters

Gematria 349· 909 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 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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