Ring
חֹתֶ֫מֶתStrong’s H2858chotemet (cho-te-met)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chotemet is the Hebrew word usually translated “seal”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.”
Meaning
- Signet ring, signet seal
How it's translated
- the seal 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֹתֶ֫מֶת chotemet · ring
signet ring, signet seal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RING, noun
- A circle, or a circular line, or any thing in the form of a circular line or hoop. Exodus 25:12
- A circular course.
All definitions and other forms of “ring”
RING, noun
[from the verb.]
- A sound; particularly, the sound of metals; as the ring of a bell.
- Any loud sound, or the sounds of numerous voices; or sound continued, repeated or reverberated; as the ring of acclamations.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
RING, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive rung.
RING, verb transitive
[from the noun.
- To encircle.
- To fit with rings, as the fingers, or as a swine's snout.
RING, verb intransitive
- To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
- To practice the art of making music with bells.
- To sound; to resound.
- To utter, as a bell; to sound.
- To tinkle; to have the sensation of sound continued.
- To be filled with report or talk.
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.