chotam · seal

What it means

chotam (חוֹתָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seal”.

An engraved piece that served as a personal signature; it was worn hanging from a cord or as a ring.

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. A marking ring, used as a signature.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• seal ×11
• signet ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×6
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Song of Songs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 38:18

  He said, “What is the pledge that I shall give you?” She said, “Your seal, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

• Exodus 28:11

  As the work of a stonecutter, with engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; mounted in settings of gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 28:21

  The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with engravings of a signet, each with its name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

• Exodus 28:36

  You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, with engravings of a signet, ‘Holiness to YHWH.’

• Exodus 39:6

  And they made the onyx stones, set in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 39:14

  And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with the engravings of a seal, each according to its name, for the twelve tribes.

• Exodus 39:30

  And they made the plate of the holy diadem of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription with the engravings of a seal: “Holiness to YHWH.”

• 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.

• Job 38:14

  It is changed like clay under a seal, and things stand out like a garment.

• Job 41:15

  Its pride is its rows of shields, shut up with a seal tight.

• Song of Songs 8:6

  Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for strong as death is love, hard as Sheol is jealousy; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah.

• Jeremiah 22:24

  “As I live, declares YHWH, even if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, yet from there I would tear you off.

• Haggai 2:23

  On that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant, declares YHWH, and I will make you like a seal; for you I have chosen, declares YHWH Tsevaot.”

And 1 more times.