STRONGS H2856:
Abbreviations
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חָתַם verb seal, affix seal, seal up (Late Hebrew
id.; Aramaic
חֲתַם,
Mtxo; Ethiopic
ኀተመ፡ Arabic
خَتَمَ (whence
خَاتَمً) is loan-word according to Frä
252) —
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
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);
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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