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# חֹותָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2368

**seal** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

seal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2368/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹתָם: n.m. seal, signet-ring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2368/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 41:7 seal, signet-ring (Aramaic ܚܳܬܡܳܐ; Ethiopic ማኅተም —v. LagBN 116)—abs. חֹתָם Ex 28:11 + 2 times; חוֹתָם Je 22:24 + 8 times; sf. חֹתָֽמְךָ Gn 38:18, חֹתָמוֹ 1 K 21:8;—on supposed cstr. חוֹתַם v. foregoing;—seal, signet-ring, hung by a cord (פָּתִיל) about the neck Gn 38:18 (J; = חֹתֶמֶת v 25), or (later?) worn on (finger of) right hand Je 22:24, (BenzArchäol. 106); the two customsappar. combined Ct 8:6 (עַל־לִבֶּ֗ךָ, עַל־זְרוֹעֶךָ); used to attest a royal missive 1 K 21:8 (instr. of vb. חתם); a precious article Hg 2:23 (sim. of Zerubbabel); פִּתּוּחֵי ח׳ engravings of a seal, as model for cutting names and inscr. on precious stones and gold plate Ex 28:11, 21, 26; 39:6, 14, 30 (all P; v. Benz258 ff.); חֹמֶר ח׳ Jb 38:14 = clay of (under) a signet; ח׳ צָ֑ר 41:7 a close signet, i.e. one that is closely pressed down, sim. of closely joined (סָגוּר) scales of crocodile.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of a seal (7); seal (4); a seal (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.7/#tree)

גַּ֭אֲוָה אֲפִיקֵ֣י מָֽגִנִּ֑ים סָ֝ג֗וּר חוֹתָ֥ם צָֽר׃

*Word for word:* pride \[is\].rows of.shields \[it.is\].shut.up a.seal tight

*JPS 1917:* His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

[Job 38:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.14/#tree)

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ כְּחֹ֣מֶר חוֹתָ֑ם וְ֝יִֽתְיַצְּב֗וּ כְּמ֣וֹ לְבֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* it.is.changed like.\[the\] clay of.a.seal and they.stand.forth like clothing

*JPS 1917:* It is changed as clay under the seal; and they stand as a garment.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2368.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2368/): 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).