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
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָתַם (sa.tam) — to close. 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
שָׂתַם (sa.tam) — to stopper. to stop up, shut up
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Close | verb qal, verb pi
to stop up = action by which humans clog or block a natural flow of water
GEN 26:15 · GEN 26:18 · 2KI 3:19 · 2KI 3:25 · 2CH 32:3 · 2CH 32:4 · 2CH 32:30
Close | verb nif
to close, to repair = causative action by which humans close a hole or crack in a wall with stones
verb
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
סָתַם vb. stop up, shut up, keep close Qal stop up springs of water
shut up, keep close
Niph. the breaches [in the walls] had begun to be stopped up.
Pi. of stopping wells quite up
base
שָׂתַם vb. usu. stop up, in sense of shut out, shut ears against;—Qal La 3:8 ref