חֹתָם chotam

Hebrew word for “signet” · Strong’s H2368 · used 14 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

seal, signet, signet-ring

How it is translated

Glosses given for chotam in context, with how often each is used:

• seal 10
• like seal 2
• signet-ring 1
• like signet-ring 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 28 (3), Exodus 39 (3), Genesis 38 (1), 1 Kings 21 (1), Job 38 (1), Job 41 (1), Song of Solomon 8 (1), Jeremiah 22 (1), Haggai 2 (1)

Forms

• חותם 6
• חתם 3
• כחותם 3
• חתמך 1
• בחתמו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chotam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פִּתּוּחַ pittuach “engraving” 6
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 4
• שֵׁם shem “name” 5
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 4
• מִשְׁבְּצוֹת mishbetsah “filigree” 2
• פָּתַח patach “to open” 3
• צִיץ tsits “flower” 2
• טָהוֹר tahor “pure” 2
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 3
• סָבַב savav “to turn” 2
• שֵׁבֶט shevet “tribe” 2
• כָּתַב katav “to write” 2

Key verses

The verses using chotam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 38:18 — And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in…
• Exodus 28:11 — With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt…
• Exodus 28:21 — And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name…
• Exodus 28:36 — And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
• Exodus 39:6 — And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
• Exodus 39:30 — And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
• 1 Kings 21:8 — So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with…
• Job 38:14 — It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
• Job 41:15 — His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
• Song of Solomon 8:6 — Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire,…
• Jeremiah 22:24 — As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
• Haggai 2:23 — In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.