Lexical Summary chatham: to seal, affix a seal, seal up Original Word: חָתַםTransliteration: chatham Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tham') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to seal, affix a seal, seal up Meaning: to seal, affix a seal, seal up Strong's Concordance make an end, mark, seal up, stop A primitive root; to close up; especially to seal -- make an end, mark, seal (up), stop. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2856. chatham חָתַם verb seal, affix seal, seal up (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲתַם, ; Ethiopic Arabic (whence ) is loan-word according to Frä252) — Qal Imperfect3masculine singular יַחְתֹּם Job 9:7; 33:6, יַחְתּוֺם 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, + 9:24 Kt (Qr לְהָתֵם); Participle active חוֺתֵם Ezekiel 28:12; pass. חָתוּם Deuteronomy 32:24 2t., etc.; — 1 seal, affix one's seal, in attestation; seal with king's seal (בְּחֹתָמוֺ) 1 Kings 21:8, המלך בְּטַבַּעַת Esther 8:8, 10; of covenant with ׳י, attested by seal (passive) Nehemiah 10:1; 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 ׳יs ways) 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,), 32:14; 32:44, a book of prophecy Daniel 12:4 ("" הַדְּבָרים סְתֹם), compare 12:9 ("" id.), 9:24 b; so in simileof unintelligible prophecy Isaiah 29:11 (twice in verse); בְּלְמֻּדָ֑י תּוֺרָה חֲתֹם 8:16 seal up the teaching among my disciples, i.e. keep it securely ("" צוֺר); of ׳יs remembrance of offences בְּאוֺצְרֹתָ֑י חָתוּם Deuteronomy 32:34 ("" עְמָּדִי כָּמֻס), so מִּשְׁעִי בִּצְרוֺר חָתוּם Job 14:17 ("" עַלעֲֿוֺנִי וַתִּטְמֹּל); חָתוּם מַעְיָן Song of Solomon 4:12 a fountain sealed up, metaphor of chaste woman ("" נָעוּל (גַּל) גַּן); יַח כּוֺכָבִים ׳וּבְעַד Job 9:7 and about the stars he putteth a seal ("" of forbidding sun to rise). — תָּכְנִית חוֺתֵם אַתָּה 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 ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Hi compare Ew; text perhaps corrupt, see suggestions in Co. — Daniel 9:24 a read Qr לְהָתֵם (see תמם). Job 33:16; 37:7 see below 1. Niph`al Perfect3masculine singular [or Participle?] וְנֶחְתָּ֖ם נִכְתָּ֔ב Esther 3:12 (it was) written and sealed הַמֶּלֶךְ בְּטַבַּעַת; Infinitive absolute וְנַחְתּוֺם 8:8 (continuing participle נִכְתָּ֣ב) also + הַמּ ׳בְּטַבַּעַת; both passive of Qal 1. Pi`el Perfect3plural חִתְּמוּלָֿמוֺ יוֺמָם Job 24:16 literally by day they seal up for themselves, i.e. according to most, they shut themselves up, do not shew themselves ("" אוֺר יָדְעוּ לֹא); ᵐ5 C has ἡμέρας ἐσφράγισαν εἀυτοῖ ς (B and others εἁυτους), whence Siegf conjecture plausibly ח ׳יָמִים ׳ל they seal up the days unto themselves, i.e. daytime is for them sealed up and unused. Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular מִזּוֺבוֺ בְּשָׁרוֺ אוֺהֶֿחְתִּים Leviticus 15:3 or hath his flesh (genital organ) shewn stoppage by reason of his flux. [חֲתַם] verb seal (see Biblical Hebrew); — Pe`al Perfect3masculine singular suffix (of stone) חַתְמֶהּ Daniel 6:18 (ב instrumental). |