חָסַםchâçam
stop up, muzzle
Pronunciation: khaw-sam' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2629
Meanings
Qal: thou shalt not muzzle an ox when it is treading, and it shall stop (Deuteronomy 25:4; Ezekiel 39:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 25:4 “You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.
- Ezekiel 39:11 “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea. It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).