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חֹתָםStrong’s H2368

chotam (cho-tam)

Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chotam is the Hebrew word usually translated “seal”, “like seal” and “seal your”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.”
Genesis 38:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. Seal, signet, signet-ring
How it's translated
  • a seal 8
  • like seal 2
  • seal your 1
  • with seal his 1
  • a signet-ring 1
  • like signet-ring 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 6
  • Job 2
  • Genesis 1
  • 1 Kings 1
  • Song of Solomon 1
  • Jeremiah 1

7 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חֹתָם chotam · signet

seal, signet, signet-ring

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “signet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SIG'NET, noun

A seal; particularly in Great Britain, the seal used by the king in sealing his private letters, and grants that pass by bill under his majesty's hand.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.