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# שָׂתַם

Biblical Hebrew

**stop up** — 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

stop up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂתַם: vb. stop up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5ea_5b7_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. usually stop up, in sense of shut out, shut ears against (late ‖ form of סָתַם; yet awkward; BaES 9 cp. Arabic شَمَّتَ frustrate, disappoint);— Pf. 3 ms. שׂ׳ תְּפִלָּתִי La 3:8 (\> van d. H. שָׂתָם) he (י׳) hath shut out my prayer (Bu שׂ׳ מִתּ׳ shut up \[himself\] from).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.8/#tree)

גַּ֣ם כִּ֤י אֶזְעַק֙ וַאֲשַׁוֵּ֔עַ שָׂתַ֖ם תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* also (dm) I.will.cry.out and I.will.cry.for.help he.has.shut.out prayer my

*JPS 1917:* Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5ea_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_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).