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sa.tam H5640

סָתַם (sa.tam) means “to close” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

סָתַם Hebrew · H5640 14 tagged occurrences in 14 verses

Pronunciation guide: saw-tham' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5640A

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

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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

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
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
Rendering Count
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

Page 1 of 1. 14 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 26:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Genesis 26:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. 2 Kings 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  4. 2 Kings 3:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  5. 2 Chronicles 32:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. 2 Chronicles 32:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. 2 Chronicles 32:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  8. Nehemiah 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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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    Source alternate reference: 4.1

  9. Psalms 51:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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    Source alternate reference: 51.8

  10. Lamentations 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

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  11. Ezekiel 28:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

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  12. Daniel 8:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”

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  13. Daniel 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”

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  14. Daniel 12:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

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