satam · stop up, close

What it means

satam (סָתַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stop up, close”.

Block, as when filling in a well; also keep secret.

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 plug wells or breaches.
2. To keep something shut and out of sight, like a secret no one knows.
3. To shut out, like prayer.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• had stopped up ×2
• keep secret ×2
• secret ×2
• stop up ×2
• they stopped up ×2
• be closed ×1
• he shuts out ×1
• hidden part ×1
• stopped up ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×3

• Genesis 26:15

  All the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped up and filled with dust.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac again dug the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by names like the names by which his father had called them.

• 2 Kings 3:19

  You will strike every fortified city and every choice city, and every good tree you will fell, and all the springs of water you will stop up, and every good plot of land you will ruin with stones.”

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They tore down the cities, and on every good plot of land each one threw his stone and they filled it; they stopped up every spring of water and felled every good tree, until only in Kir-hareseth its stones were left; and the slingers surrounded it and struck it.

• 2 Chronicles 32:3

  and he took counsel with his officials and his mighty men to stop up the waters of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  Many people were gathered, and they stopped up all the fountains and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah stopped up the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his work.

• Nehemiah 4:7

  It happened that when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward, that the breaches had begun to be closed, they burned with anger greatly;

• Psalms 51:6

  Look, you delight in truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you make me know wisdom.

• Lamentations 3:8

  Even when I cry out and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

• Ezekiel 28:3

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

• Daniel 8:26

  And the vision of the evening and the morning that has been told is true; and you, keep secret the vision, for it is for many days.”

• 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.