To seal
חָתַםStrong’s H2856chatam (cha-tam)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatam is the Hebrew word usually translated “sealed”, “sealed up” and “puts a seal”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Meaning
- To seal, seal up, affix a seal(Qal) · (Niphal) to seal · (Piel) to lock up · (Hiphil) to be stopped
How it's translated
- the sealed 4
- sealed up 3
- he puts a seal 2
- sealed 2
- it has been obstructed 1
- and she sealed 1
- and sealed 1
- and seal 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Jeremiah 4
- Esther 3
- Daniel 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Isaiah 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:4In contextBut thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
- Daniel 12:9In contextAnd he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
- Leviticus 15:3And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
- Deuteronomy 32:34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
- 1 Kings 21:8So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
- Nehemiah 9:38And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
Hebrew dictionary
חָתַם chatam · to seal
1) to seal, seal up, affix a seal 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to seal, affix one's seal 1a2) to seal up, fasten up by sealing 1b) (Niphal) to seal 1c) (Piel) to lock up 1d) (Hiphil) to be stopped Aramaic equivalent: cha.tam (חֲתַם "to seal" H2857)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEAL, noun
The common name for the species of the genus Phoca. These animals are ampibious, most of the inhabiting the sea coasts, particularly in the higher latitudes. They have six cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and four in the lower. Their hind feet are placed at the extremity of the body, in the same diretion with it, and serve the purpose of a caudal fin; the fore feet are also adapted for swimming, and furmished each with five claws; the external ears are either very small or wanting. There are numerous species; as the leonina, sometimes 18 feet in length, and the jubata, sometimes 25 feet in length, with a name like a lion, both called sea-lion, and found in the southern seas, and alo in the noun Pacific; the ursina, or sea bear, 8 or 9 feet in length, and covered with long, thick bristly hair, found in the noun Pacifac; and the common seal frome 4 to 6 feet in length, found generally throughout the Atlantic and the seas and bays communicating with it, covered with short, stiff, glossy hair, with a smooth head without external ears, and with the fore legs deeply immersed in the skin. Seals are much sought after for their skins and fur.
All definitions and other forms of “seal”
SEAL, noun
[L. sigillum.]
- A piece of metal or other hard substance, usually round or oval, on which is ingraved some image or device, and sometimes a legend or inscription.
- The wax or wafer that makes fast a letter or other paper.
- Any act of confirmation.
- That which confirms, ratifies or makes stable; assurance. 2 Timothy 2:19
- That which effectually shuts, confines or secures; that which makes fast. Revelation 20:3
SEAL, verb transitive
- To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer or with wax; as, to seal a letter.
- To set or affix a seal as a mark of authenticity; as, to seal a deed.
- To confirm; to ratify; to establish.“When therefore I hace performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you in Spain” Romans 15:28
- To shut or keep close; sometimes with up.
- To make fast.“So they went and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone and settig a watch” Matthew 27:66
- To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
- To keep secret.“Shut up the words, and seal the book” Daniel 12:4
- To mark as ones property, and secure from danger.
- To close; to fulfill; to complete; with up.
- To imprint on the; as, to seal instruction.
- To inclose; to hide; to conceal.
- To confine; to restrain.
- In architecture, to fix a piece of wood or iron in a wall with cement.
SEAL, verb intransitive
To fix a seal
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.