# H5640 סָתַם

סָתַם (çâtham), Strong’s H5640: to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret KJV: closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.. Occurs 14 times.

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*çâtham* — to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret

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

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=15) — Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped…
- [Genesis 26:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=18) — Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had…
- [2 Kings 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=19) — You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of…
- [2 Kings 3:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=25) — They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped…
- [Ezekiel 28:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/28?v=3) — behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.
- [Psalms 51:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/51?v=8) — Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- [Lamentations 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=8) — Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
- [Daniel 8:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/8?v=26) — “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many…
- [Daniel 12:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/12?v=4) — 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…
- [Daniel 12:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/12?v=9) — He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.