{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5640",
  "lemma": "סָתַם",
  "transliteration": "çâtham",
  "definition": "to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret",
  "kjv": "closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.",
  "occurrences": 14,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "סָתַם vb. stop up, shut up, keep close",
    "Qal",
    "1. stop up springs of water",
    "2. shut up, keep close",
    "Niph. the breaches [in the walls] had begun to be stopped up.",
    "Pi. of stopping wells quite up",
    "שָׂתַם vb",
    "שָׂתַם vb. usu. stop up, in sense of shut out, shut ears against;—Qal La 3:8"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 26:15",
      "text": "Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 26:18",
      "text": "Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 3:19",
      "text": "You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 3:25",
      "text": "They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 28:3",
      "text": "behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/28?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 51:8",
      "text": "Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/51?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Lamentations 3:8",
      "text": "Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 8:26",
      "text": "“The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/8?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 12:4",
      "text": "But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/12?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 12:9",
      "text": "He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/12?v=9"
    }
  ],
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