H5640 - סָתַם (çâtham)

H5640 סָתַם (çâtham) saw-tham'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret

Derivation: or שָׂתַם; (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root;

KJV Usage: closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.

TWOT Reference: 1550

Outline of Biblical Usage

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

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1758 G2572 G2598 G2619 G3146 G4972 G5420

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שָׂתַם / סָתַם sâtham / śâtham BDB Definition: 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 Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1550 Total KJV Occurrences: 14

Bible Occurrences (14)

26:15 26:18

3:19 3:25

32:3 32:4 32:30

4:7

51:6

3:8

28:3

8:26 12:4 12:9

Genesis 26:15

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Genesis 26:18

Isaac reopened... the wells... that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave [these wells] the same names... his father had given them.

2 Kings 3:19

And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring..., and ruin every good field with stones.

2 Kings 3:25

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring... and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it [as well].

2 Chronicles 32:3

he consulted with his leaders and mighty men about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.

2 Chronicles 32:4

Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

2 Chronicles 32:30

It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.

Nehemiah 4:7

When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that... the gaps were being closed, they were furious -,