סָתַםçâtham

סָתַם: stop up, shut up, keep close

Pronunciation: saw-tham' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5640

Meanings

Qal

1. stop up (2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 3:25; 2 Chronicles 32:3)

2. shut up, keep close (Daniel 8:26; Daniel 12:4; Daniel 12:9)

Niph`al: to be stopped up (Nehemiah 4:1)

Pi`el: stopping, quite up (Genesis 26:16; Genesis 26:18)

שָׂתַם: usually stop up, in sense of shut out, shut ears against

Qal: he, hath shut out my prayer (Lamentations 3:8)

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 26:15 So the Philistines filled up all of Isaac’s wells with dirt. These were the wells that had been dug by the servants of his father, Abraham.
  • Genesis 26:18 He reopened the wells his father had dug, which the Philistines had filled in after Abraham’s death. Isaac also restored the names Abraham had given them.
  • 2 Kings 3:19 You will conquer the best of their towns, even the fortified ones. You will cut down all their good trees, stop up all their springs, and ruin all their good land with stones.”
  • 2 Kings 3:25 They destroyed the towns, covered their good land with stones, stopped up all the springs, and cut down all the good trees. Finally, only Kir-hareseth and its stone walls were left, but men with slings surrounded and attacked it.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:3 he consulted with his officials and military advisers, and they decided to stop the flow of the springs outside the city.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:4 They organized a huge work crew to stop the flow of the springs, cutting off the brook that ran through the fields. For they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come here and find plenty of water?”
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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).