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title: שָׁתַם — open · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁתַם (8365), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: open. BDB 1906: vb. open. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁתַם

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«שָׁתַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **open** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 8365 · **BDB:** שָׁתַם

### Glosses

(the).opened (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

open [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8365/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. open [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8365/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dub.; if text correct, open (NH Aramaic שׁתם open \[vessel\]);—only Pt. pass. cstr. הַגֶּבֶר שְׁתֻם הָעָ֑יִן Nu 24:3, 15 (poems in JE) the man opened of \[mental\] eye, so 𝔖 Ki Ew al. RVm; 𝔙 Röd Ke Di al. render closed of \[bodily\] eye, reading then implicitly שְׂתֻם (cf. סָתַם, שָׂתַם La 3:8); v. further Gray.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁתַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8365/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 24:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.3/)

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וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נְאֻ֤ם בִּלְעָם֙ בְּנ֣וֹ בְעֹ֔ר וּנְאֻ֥ם הַגֶּ֖בֶר שְׁתֻ֥ם הָעָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lifted.up oracle his and he.said the.utterance of.Balaam son the of.Beor and the.utterance of the.man (the).opened of the.eye

*JPS 1917:* And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

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[Numbers 24:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.15/)

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וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נְאֻ֤ם בִּלְעָם֙ בְּנ֣וֹ בְעֹ֔ר וּנְאֻ֥ם הַגֶּ֖בֶר שְׁתֻ֥ם הָעָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lifted.up oracle his and he.said the.utterance of.Balaam son the of.Beor and the.utterance of the.man (the).opened of the.eye

*JPS 1917:* And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

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