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# חָסַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2629

**stop up** — used 2 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

stop up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2629/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסַם: vb. stop up, muzzle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2629/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. stop up, muzzle (NH id., חסום muzzle; Aramaic חֲסַם bind up fast)— Impf. לֹא תַחְסֹם שׁוֹר בְּדִישׁוֹ Dt 25:4 thou shalt not muzzle an ox when it is treading (i.e. threshing); Pt. וְחֹסֶמֶת היא Eze 39:11 and it shall stop (the way of) the passers-by; but read וְחָֽסְמוּ את־הַגַּיְא and they shall stop up the valley, Co v. 𝔊 𝔖 Hi.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: \[will be\] blocking the way of (1); you will muzzle (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.4/#tree)

לֹא־תַחְסֹ֥ם שׁ֖וֹר בְּדִישֽׁוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* not you.will.muzzle an.ox when threshes it

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

[Ezekiel 39:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.39.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.39.11/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה בַיּ֣וֹם הַה֡וּא אֶתֵּ֣ן לְגוֹג֩ ׀ מְקֽוֹם־שָׁ֨ם קֶ֜בֶר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל גֵּ֤י הָעֹֽבְרִים֙ קִדְמַ֣ת הַיָּ֔ם וְחֹסֶ֥מֶת הִ֖יא אֶת־הָעֹֽבְרִ֑ים וְקָ֣בְרוּ שָׁ֗ם אֶת־גּוֹג֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־הֲמוֹנֹ֔הוְקָ֣רְא֔וּ גֵּ֖יא הֲמ֥וֹנ גּֽוֹג גֵּ֖יא הֲמ֥וֹנ גּֽוֹג גֵּ֖יא הֲמ֥וֹנ גּֽוֹג׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be on the day (the) that I.will.give to Gog a.place (of).there a.burial.site in Israel the.valley of \[those.who\].pass.through the.east of the.sea and \[will.be\].blocking.the.way.of it (et) \[those who\].pass.through and people.will.bury there (et) Gog and (et) all multitude his and they.will.call.\[it\] the.valley of Hamon-Gog

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place fit for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them that pass through; and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it the valley of Hamon-gog.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2629.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2629/): 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).