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# חָטַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2413

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

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hold in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2413/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָטַם: vb. hold in, restrain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2413/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hold in, restrain (Arabic خَطَمَ strike the nose, attach the خِطَامٌ = camel-halter, خَطْمٌ n. muzzle, nose of beast; NH חֲטָם nose-ring of camel, חוֹטָם; Aramaic חוּטְמָא nose; cf. חטם, Inscr. Zinj.; according to DHMSendsch. 34, of taming wild beasts)— Impf. אֶחֱטָם־לָ֑ךְ לְבִלְתִּי הַכְרִיתֶֽךָ׃ Is 48:9 I will restrain for thee (mine anger), not to cut thee off (‖ אַאֲרִיךְ אַפִּי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 48:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.9/#tree)

לְמַ֤עַן שְׁמִי֙ אַאֲרִ֣יךְ אַפִּ֔י וּתְהִלָּתִ֖י אֶחֱטָם־לָ֑ךְ לְבִלְתִּ֖י הַכְרִיתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* for.the.sake.of name my I.will.make.long anger my and praise my I.will.restrain.myself to you to not to cut.you.off

*JPS 1917:* For My name's sake will I defer Mine anger, and for My praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2413.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2413/): 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).