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
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TBESH · H5640B
שָׂתַם
· sa.tam · to stopper
to stop up, shut up
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or שָׂתַם; (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root; to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret
KJV glosses: closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.
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How translators render H5640
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a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different
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BSB rendering counts
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about stopping up
1
and stopped
1
and stopped up
1
are closed up
1
had stopped up
1
he shuts out
1
in the inmost place
1
must seal up
1
secret
1
shut up
1
stop up
1
they stopped up
1
were being closed
1
who blocked
1
KJV rendering counts
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had stopped
2
also stopped
1
and in the hidden
1
and stop
1
closed up
1
he shutteth out
1
it and they stopped
1
shut up
1
there is no secret
1
to be stopped
1
to stop
1
wherefore shut thou up
1
who stopped
1
Verses containing H5640
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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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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,
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