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title: סָתַם — stop up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָתַם (5640), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: stop up. BDB 1906: vb. stop up, shut up, keep close. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָתַם

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«סָתַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stop up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 5640 · **BDB:** סָתַם

### Glosses

keep.secret (2); they (2); they.stopped.up (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stop up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5640/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. stop up, shut up, keep close [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5640/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. stop up, shut up, keep close (NH id.; 𝔗 סְתַם id.; Syriac ܣܛܰܡ (ܣܬܡ very rare); Arabic سَدَمَ close door Lane1334, and سَطَمَ Ḳam Frey, are perhaps loan-words; cf. Assyrian (bît) šutummu, storehouse, treasury, ZehnpfBAS i. 531); — Pf. 3 ms. ס׳ 2 Ch 32:30; Impf. 2 mpl. תִּסְתֹּ֑מוּ 2 K 3:19; 3 mpl. יִסְתֹּ֑מוּ v 25, וַיִּסְתְּמוּ 2 Ch 32:4; Imv. ms. סְתֹם Dn 8:26; 12:4; Inf. cstr. לִסְתּוֹם 2 Ch 32:3; Pt. pass. סָתוּם Ez 28:3, סָתֻם ψ 51:8, pl. סְתֻמִים Dn 12:9;— stop up springs of water 2 K 3:19, 25; 2 Ch 32:3, 4, cf. v 30. shut up, keep close, prophetic words Dn 8:26; 12:4, 9; בְּסָתֻם ψ 51:8 in (the) closed (chamber of the breast; ‖ טֻחוֹת).—כָּל־סָתוּם Ez 28:3 usually no secret is too dark for thee, but doubtful (v. II. עמם); 𝔊 σοφοί, Co חַרְטֻמִּים חֲכָמִים, or Berthol. קֹסְמִים. Inf. cstr. לְהִסָּתֵם Ne 4:1 the breaches \[in the walls\] had begun to be stopped up. Pf. 3 pl. sf. סִתְּמוּם Gn 26:15; Impf. 3 mpl. sf. וַיְסַתְּמוּם v 18, both of stopping wells quite up (RJE).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָתַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5640/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 28:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.3/)

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הִנֵּ֥ה חָכָ֛ם אַתָּ֖ה מִדָּֽנִיֵּ֑אלכָּל־סָת֖וּם לֹ֥א עֲמָמֽוּךָ׃

*Word for word:* there! \[are\].wise you more than.Daniel all \[that.which.is\].kept.secret not people hold.dark.from.you

*JPS 1917:* Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! there is no secret that they can hide from thee!

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[Psalms 51:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.8/)

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הֵן־אֱ֭מֶת חָפַ֣צְתָּ בַטֻּח֑וֹת וּ֝בְסָתֻ֗ם חָכְמָ֥ה תוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* here! faithfulness you.desire in the.inner parts and in a.\[place\].kept.secret wisdom you cause.me.to.know

*JPS 1917:* Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in mine inmost heart.

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