חָתַםchâtham
חָתַם: seal, affix seal, seal up
Pronunciation: khaw-tham' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2856
Meanings
Qal: construct, active (Job 9:7; Job 33:6; Job 37:7)
1. seal, affix one's seal (1 Kings 21:8; Esther 8:8; Esther 8:10)
2. seal up, fasten up by sealing (Jeremiah 32:10; Jeremiah 32:11; Jeremiah 32:14)
Niph`al: both passive of Qal 1 (Esther 3:12; Esther 8:8)
Pi`el: they seal up for themselves, literally (Job 24:16)
Hiph`il: shewn stoppage (Leviticus 15:3)
: seal
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 26 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 15:3 This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.
- Deuteronomy 32:34 “The Lord says, ‘Am I not storing up these things, sealing them away in my treasury?
- 1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and other leaders of the town where Naboth lived.
- Nehemiah 9:38 The People Agree to Obey The people responded, “In view of all this, we are making a solemn promise and putting it in writing. On this sealed document are the names of our leaders and Levites and priests.”
- Nehemiah 10:1 The document was ratified and sealed with the following names: The governor: Nehemiah son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah.
- Esther 3:12 So on April 17 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Haman dictated. It was sent to the king’s highest officers, the governors of the respective provinces, and the nobles of each province in their own scripts and languages. The decree was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
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).