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title: חֲתַם — seal · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: חֲתַם (lemma:חֲתַם), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: seal. BDB 1906: vb. seal. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲתַם

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«חֲתַם» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **seal** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:חֲתַם · **BDB:** חֲתַם

### Glosses

he (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

seal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. seal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. seal (v. BH);— Pf. 3 ms. sf. (of stone) חַתְמַהּ Dn 6:18 (ב instr.).

### Jastrow 1903

חֲתַם: to close up to seal, sign Part. pass to close benediction Barukh to lock up Ithpa. to lock one’s self up to be sealed, stamped to be closed up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** to close up. Ber. 6ᵃ ולִיחְתּוֹם פומיה and let him close up its opening. Part. pass. חֲתִים. Targ. O. Lev. XV, 3. to seal, sign. Targ. Jer. XXXII, 44; a. fr.—Gitt. 66ᵇ מִחְתַּם וכ׳ to draw their signatures.—Part. pass. as ab. Targ. l. c. 11.—B. Bath. 89ᵇ דלא חֲתִימֵי where they do not stamp measures officially. to close a benediction. Meg. 22ᵇ ח׳ ולא בריך he closed his prayer without saying Barukh \&c. Cant. R. to I, 11 \[read:\] מלה חֲתִימָה … מסיימה a closed and finished word (complete in itself). to lock up. Targ. Job XXIV, 16 (some ed. Ithpa.). to lock one’s self up. V. supra. to be sealed, stamped. Targ. Esth. IV, 1. Targ. Is. VIII, 21; a. fr. to be closed up. Targ. Y. Lev. XV, 3 ed. pr. (ed. אתסתם).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲתַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 6:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/)

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וְהֵיתָ֙יִת֙ אֶ֣בֶן חֲדָ֔ה וְשֻׂמַ֖ת עַל־פֻּ֣ם גֻּבָּ֑א וְחַתְמַ֨הּ מַלְכָּ֜א בְּעִזְקְתֵ֗הּ וּבְעִזְקָת֙ רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי דִּ֛י לָא־תִשְׁנֵ֥א צְב֖וּ בְּדָנִיֵּֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.brought a.stone one and it.was.set over the.mouth of the.den and he sealed.it the king with signet-ring his and with the.signet-rings of his.nobles that not it.will.change anything with Daniel

*JPS 1917:* And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

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