סָתַם satam

Hebrew word for “to close” · Strong’s H5640 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

1) to stop up, shut up, keep close;

Senses in the lexicon

• to close (13)
• to stopper (1)

How it is translated

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

• stopped up 4
• keep secret 2
• had stopped up 1
• will stop up 1
• stop up 1
• closed 1
• place kept secret 1
• secret thing 1
• kept secret 1
• has shut out 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 32 (3), Genesis 26 (2), 2 Kings 3 (2), Daniel 12 (2), Nehemiah 4 (1), Psalms 51 (1), Lamentations 3 (1), Ezekiel 28 (1), Daniel 8 (1)

Forms

• סתם 3
• סתמום 1
• ויסתמום 1
• תסתמו 1
• יסתמו 1
• לסתום 1
• ויסתמו 1
• להסתם 1
• ובסתם 1
• סתום 1

Words used with it

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

• מַי mayim “water” 6
• מַעְיָן mayan “spring” 3
• חָפַר chaphar “to search” 2
• דָּנִיֵּאל daniyyel “Daniel” 2
• חָתַם chatam “to seal” 2
• חֶלְקָה chelqah “portion” 2
• בְּאֵר beer “well” 2
• עִיר ir “city” 4
• רַב rav “many” 3
• קֵץ qets “end” 2
• אֱמֶת emet “truth” 2
• אַבְרָהָם avraham “Abraham” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 26:18 — And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of…
• 2 Kings 3:25 — And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all…
• 2 Chronicles 32:3 — He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
• 2 Chronicles 32:4 — So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings…
• 2 Chronicles 32:30 — This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in…
• Nehemiah 4:7 — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up,…
• Psalms 51:6 — Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
• Lamentations 3:8 — Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
• Ezekiel 28:3 — Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
• Daniel 8:26 — And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
• Daniel 12:4 — But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
• Daniel 12:9 — And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

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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.