satam (to close) · Rightly

Meaning

To stop up, shut up, keep close(Qal) · (Niphal) to be stopped up · (Piel) to stop up
To stop up, shut up

How it's translated

keep secret 2
they stopped up them 1
and they had stopped up them 1
you will stop up 1
they stopped up 1
to stop up 1
and they stopped up 1
he stopped up 1

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

Where it's used most

2 Chronicles 3
Daniel 3
Genesis 2
2 Kings 2
Nehemiah 1
Psalms 1

8 books in all.

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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.
Genesis 26:15For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Genesis 26:18And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
2 Kings 3:19And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings 3:25And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

All 14 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 26:15 26:18
2 Kings 2: 3:19 3:25
2 Chronicles 3: 32:3 32:4 32:30
Nehemiah 1: 4:7
Psalms 1: 51:6
Lamentations 1: 3:8
Ezekiel 1: 28:3
Daniel 3: 8:26 12:4 12:9

Hebrew dictionary

סָתַם satam · to close

1) to stop up, shut up, keep close 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stop up 1a2) to shut up, keep close 1a3) secret (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be stopped up 1c) (Piel) to stop up

שָׂתַם satam · to stopper

to stop up, shut up

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CLOSE, verb transitive

To shut; to make fast, by pressing together, or by stopping an open place, so as to intercept a passage, in almost any manner; as, to close the eyes; to close a gate, door or window.“The Lord hath closed your eyes” Isaiah 29:10“He closed the book” Luke 4:20
To end; to finish; to conclude; to complete; to bring to a period; as, to close a bargain, or contract.
To unite, as the parts of a breach or fracture; to make whole; to consolidate; often followed by up.“The Lord closed up the flesh instead thereof” Genesis 2:21
To cover; to inclose; to encompass; to overwhelm.“The depths closed me round about” Jonah 2:5

All definitions and other forms of “close”

To inclose; to confine. [See Inclose.]
To move or bring together; to unite separate bodies or parts; as, to close the ranks of an army.

CLOSE, verb intransitive

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To unite; to coalesce; to come together; as the parts of a wound or fracture, or parts separated; often followed by on or upon.“The fat closed upon the blade” Judges 3:22“The earth closed upon them” Numbers 16:33
To end; to terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six oclock.

CLOSE, adjective

Shut fast; tight; made fast, so as to have no opening; as a close box; a close vizard.
Having parts firmly united; compact; dense; applied to solid substances of any king; as the close texture of wood or metal.
Having parts firmly adhering; viscous; tenacious; as oil, or glue.
Confined; stagnant; without ventilation or motion; as close air.
Confined; retired.“While David kept himself close” 1 Chronicles 12:1
Hid; private; secret; as, to keep a purpose close Numbers 5:13 Luke 9:36
Confined within narrow limits; narrow; as a close alley.
Near; within a small distance; as a close fight or action.
Joined; in contact or nearly so; crowded; as, to sit close
Compressed, as thoughts or words; hence, brief; concise; opposed to loose or diffuse.
Very near, in place or time; adjoining, or nearly so.“They sailed close by Crete” Acts 27:13
Having the quality of keeping secrets, thoughts or designs; cautious; as a close minister.
Having an appearance of concealment; implying art, craft or wariness; as a close aspect.
Intent; fixed; attentive; pressing upon the object; as, to give close attention.
Full to the point; home; pressing; as a close argument; bring the argument close to the question.
Pressing; earnest; warm; as a close debate.
Confined; secluded from communication; as a close prisoner.
Covetous; penurious; not liberal; as a close man.
Applied to the weather or air, close in popular language, denotes warm and damp, cloudy or foggy, or warm and relaxing, occasioning a sense of lassitude and depression.
Strictly adhering to the original; as a close translation.
In heraldry, drawn in a coat of arms with the wings close and in a standing posture.

CLOSE, adverb

Closely; nearly; densely; secretly; pressingly.

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