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# חֲתַם

Biblical Aramaic

**seal** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

seal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲתַם: vb. seal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. seal (v. BH);— Pf. 3 ms. sf. (of stone) חַתְמַהּ Dn 6:18 (ב instr.).

### Jastrow 1903

חֲתַם: to close up to seal, sign Part. pass to close benediction Barukh to lock up Ithpa. to lock one’s self up to be sealed, stamped to be closed up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** to close up. Ber. 6ᵃ ולִיחְתּוֹם פומיה and let him close up its opening. Part. pass. חֲתִים. Targ. O. Lev. XV, 3. to seal, sign. Targ. Jer. XXXII, 44; a. fr.—Gitt. 66ᵇ מִחְתַּם וכ׳ to draw their signatures.—Part. pass. as ab. Targ. l. c. 11.—B. Bath. 89ᵇ דלא חֲתִימֵי where they do not stamp measures officially. to close a benediction. Meg. 22ᵇ ח׳ ולא בריך he closed his prayer without saying Barukh &c. Cant. R. to I, 11 \[read:\] מלה חֲתִימָה … מסיימה a closed and finished word (complete in itself). to lock up. Targ. Job XXIV, 16 (some ed. Ithpa.). to lock one’s self up. V. supra. to be sealed, stamped. Targ. Esth. IV, 1. Targ. Is. VIII, 21; a. fr. to be closed up. Targ. Y. Lev. XV, 3 ed. pr. (ed. אתסתם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/#tree)

וְהֵיתָ֙יִת֙ אֶ֣בֶן חֲדָ֔ה וְשֻׂמַ֖ת עַל־פֻּ֣ם גֻּבָּ֑א וְחַתְמַ֨הּ מַלְכָּ֜א בְּעִזְקְתֵ֗הּ וּבְעִזְקָת֙ רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי דִּ֛י לָא־תִשְׁנֵ֥א צְב֖וּ בְּדָנִיֵּֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.brought a.stone one and it.was.set over the.mouth of the.den and he sealed.it the king with signet-ring his and with the.signet-rings of his.nobles that not it.will.change anything with Daniel

*JPS 1917:* And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).