satam · bear a grudge

What it means

satam (שָׂטַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bear a grudge”.

Hate with a desire to do harm.

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. Hold hatred inside and pursue someone with it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bears a grudge against me ×1
• bears a grudge against us ×1
• harassed him ×1
• held a grudge against ×1
• they bear a grudge against me ×1
• you bear a grudge against me ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×1

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him;

• Genesis 50:15

  When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the evil that we did to him?”

• Job 16:9

  His anger tears and bears a grudge against me; he gnashes his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes at me.

• Job 30:21

  You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you bear a grudge against me.

• Psalms 55:3

  because of the voice of the enemy, because of the pressure of the wicked; for they bring down upon me wickedness, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.