Biblica Analytica
H2856 Hebrew

חָתַם

cha.tam

to seal

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to seal
Transliteration
cha.tam
Strong's Number
H2856
Occurrences
26

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Strong's
H2856
Lemma
חָתַם
Transliteration
cha.tam
Definition
to seal
Occurrences
26
Model
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Occurrences in Scripture

26 total occurrences across the text

Leviticus 15:3

This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Deuteronomy 32:34

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

1 Kings 21:8

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

Nehemiah 9:38

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

Nehemiah 10:1

Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

Esther 3:12

Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 8:8

Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”

Esther 8:8

Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”

Esther 8:10

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

Job 14:17

My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

Job 9:7

He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

Job 33:16

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

Job 37:7

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

Isaiah 8:16

Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 29:11

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Isaiah 29:11

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

Jeremiah 32:11

So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

Jeremiah 32:14

Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.’

Jeremiah 32:44

Men will buy fields for money, sign the deeds, seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed,” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 28:12

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

Daniel 12:9

He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.