Strong's Hebrew · H5640

H5640 çâtham

סָתַם

saw-tham'

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çâtham appears 14 times in Scripture, including Genesis 26:15 and 2 Kings 3:19. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret

In the King James Version

closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.

Derivation

or שָׂתַם; (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root;

Appears 14 times in Scripture

2 Chronicles 32:30

“It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.”

2 Chronicles 32:3

“he consulted with his leaders and mighty men about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.”

Lamentations 3:8

“Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.”

2 Kings 3:25

“They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.”

2 Chronicles 32:4

“Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.”

2 Kings 3:19

“And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.””

Nehemiah 4:7

“When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,”

Psalms 51:6

“Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.”

Genesis 26:15

“So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.”

Genesis 26:18

“Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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