The meaning of “סָתַם”
Understanding çâtham reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
or שָׂתַם sâtham (saw-tham'); (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop. - to sto...
סָתַם
or שָׂתַם sâtham (saw-tham'); (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop. - to stop up - by implication, to repair - figuratively, to keep secret 1) to stop up, shut up, keep close 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stop up 1a2) to shut up, keep close 1a3) secret (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be stopped up 1c) (Piel) to stop up
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.” Word: סָתַם (çâtham) | |
| 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 the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.” Word: סָתַם (çâtham) | |
| 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 of Assyria come, and find much water?” Word: סָתַם (çâtham) | |
| 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, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,” Word: סָתַם (çâtham) | |
| Psalms 51:6 | “Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.” Word: סָתַם (çâtham) |
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