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# חֹתֶמֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2858

**signet-ring** — 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

signet-ring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2858/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹתֶ֫מֶת: n.f. signet-ring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2858/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. signet-ring—only הַח׳ Gn 38:25 (J; for i. חֹתָם v 18) the signet-ring (according to BöNÄ i, 23 fem. coll. the sealing-apparatus).

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, 2 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: seal (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.25/#tree)

הִ֣וא מוּצֵ֗את וְהִ֨יא שָׁלְחָ֤ה אֶל־חָמִ֙יהָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְאִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁר־אֵ֣לֶּה לּ֔וֹ אָנֹכִ֖י הָרָ֑ה וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַכֶּר־נָ֔א לְמִ֞י הַחֹתֶ֧מֶת וְהַפְּתִילִ֛ים וְהַמַּטֶּ֖ה הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* she \[was.being\].brought.out and she she.sent to father-in-law her (cmp) to a.man whom these \[belong\].to him I \[am\].pregnant and she.said investigate please \[belong\].to whom? the seal and the cords and the staff (the) these

*JPS 1917:* When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying: 'By the man, whose these are, am I with child'; and she said: 'Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2858.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2858/): 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).