chatam · seal, stop up

What it means

chatam (חָתַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seal, stop up”.

Seal, close up. Of the body, be blocked so that a discharge does not come out.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stamp with a signet, or close something tight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sealed ×15
• seal ×7
• blocked ×1
• he seals ×1
• seals up ×1
• they shut themselves in ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×4
• Job×5
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×3

• Leviticus 15:3

  And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge or his body is blocked from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

• Deuteronomy 32:34

  ‘Is not this laid up with me, sealed in my treasuries?

• 1 Kings 21:8

  She wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• Nehemiah 9:38

  And because of all this we are making a firm agreement and writing it; and on what was sealed are our officials, our Levites, and our priests.

• Nehemiah 10:1

  And on what was sealed: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

• Esther 3:12

  And the king’s scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it was written according to all that Haman commanded, to the king’s satraps and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, to each province according to its script and each people according to its language; in the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

• Esther 8:8

  And you, write concerning the Jews as seems good in your eyes, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring; for a writing that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be turned back.”

• Esther 8:10

  And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by the hand of the couriers on horses, riding the royal steeds, sons of the mares,

• Job 9:7

  who speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars;

• Job 14:17

  Sealed up in a bag would be my transgression, and you would plaster over my iniquity.

• Job 24:16

  They dig through houses in the dark; by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

• Job 33:16

  then he uncovers the ear of men, and their correction he seals,

• Job 37:7

  On the hand of every human being he sets a seal, so that all the men of his making may know.

• Song of Songs 4:12

  A garden locked is my sister, bride, a fountain locked, a spring sealed.

• Isaiah 8:16

  Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among my disciples.

• Isaiah 29:11

  And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one who knows letters, saying, “Read please this,” and he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

• Jeremiah 32:10

  And I wrote it in the deed and sealed it, and had witnesses testify, and weighed the silver on the scales.

• Jeremiah 32:11

  And I took the deed of purchase, the sealed one, the terms and the statutes, and the open one;

• Jeremiah 32:14

  ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of purchase, the sealed one, and this open deed, and put them in a vessel of clay, so that they may last many days.

• Jeremiah 32:44

  Fields they will buy with silver, and write in deeds, and seal them, and have witnesses testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev; for I will bring back their captivity, declares YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 28:12

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre, and say to him: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: You were the seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfection of beauty.

• Daniel 9:24

  Seventy weeks are decreed concerning your people and concerning your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to put an end to sin, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in eternal righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

• Daniel 12:4

  And you, Daniel, keep secret the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”

• Daniel 12:9

  And he said, “Go, Daniel, for the words are kept secret and sealed until the time of the end.

And 2 more times.