Signet
חֹתָםStrong’s H2368chotam (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
- Exodus 28:21And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 28:36And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
- Exodus 39:6And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 39:14And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 39:30And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
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.