Lexical Summary satham: to stop up, shut up, keep close Original Word: סָתַםTransliteration: satham Phonetic Spelling: (saw-tham') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to stop up, shut up, keep close Meaning: to stop up, to repair, to keep secret Strong's Concordance closed up, hidden, secret, shut out up, stop Or satham (Numbers 24:15) {saw-tham'}; a primitive root; to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret -- closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5640. satham סָתַם verb stop up, shut up, keep close (Late Hebrew id.; סְתַם ᵑ7 id.; Syriac ( very rare); Arabic close door Lane1334, and Kam Frey, are perhaps loan-words); **compare Assyrian bit sutummu, storehouse, treasury, ZehnpfBAS i. 531. — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ס2 Chronicles 32:30; Imperfect2masculine plural תִּסְתֹּ֑מוּ 2 Kings 3:19; 3masculine plural יִסְתֹּ֑מוּ 3:25, וַיִּסְתְּמוּ2 Chronicles 32:4; Imperative masculine singular סְתֹם Daniel 8:26; 12:4; Infinitive construct לִסְתּוֺם2 Chronicles 32:3; Passive participle סָתוּם Ezekiel 28:3, סָתֻם Psalm 51:8, plural סְתֻמִים Daniel 12:9; — 1 stop up springs of water 2 Kings 3:19, 25; 2 Chronicles 32:3-4, compare 32:30. 2 shut up, keep close, prophetic words Daniel 8:26; 12:4, 9; בְּסָתֻם Psalm 51:8 in (the) closed (chamber of the breast; "" טֻחוֺת). — כָּלסָֿתוּם Ezekiel 28:3 usually no secret is too dark for thee, but doubtful (see II. עמם); ᵐ5 σοφοί, Co חַרְטֻמִּים < Toy חֲכָמִים, or Berthol. קֹסְמִים. Niph`al Infinitive construct לְהִסָּתֵם Nehemiah 4:1 the breaches [in the walls] had begun to be stopped up. Pi`el Perfect3plural suffix סִתְּמוּם Genesis 26:16; Imperfect3masculine plural suffix וַיְסַתְּמוּם 26:18, both of stopping wells quite up (RJE). שָׂתַם verb usually stop up, in sense of shut out, shut ears against (late "" form of סָתַם; yet awkward; BaES 9 compare Arabic frustrate, disappoint); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׂ תְּפִלָּתִי Lamentations 3:8 (> van d. H. שָׂתָם) he (׳י) hath shut out my prayer (Bu ׳שׂ ׳מתּ shut up [himself] from). |