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# שָׁתַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8365

**open** — 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

open [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8365/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁתַם: vb. open [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8365/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dub.; if text correct, open (NH Aramaic שׁתם open \[vessel\]);—only Pt. pass. cstr. הַגֶּבֶר שְׁתֻם הָעָ֑יִן Nu 24:3, 15 (poems in JE) the man opened of \[mental\] eye, so 𝔖 Ki Ew al. RVm; 𝔙 Röd Ke Di al. render closed of \[bodily\] eye, reading then implicitly שְׂתֻם (cf. סָתַם, שָׂתַם La 3:8); v. further Gray.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 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: (the) opened (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.3/#tree)

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נְאֻ֤ם בִּלְעָם֙ בְּנ֣וֹ בְעֹ֔ר וּנְאֻ֥ם הַגֶּ֖בֶר שְׁתֻ֥ם הָעָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lifted.up oracle his and he.said the.utterance of.Balaam son the of.Beor and the.utterance of the.man (the).opened of the.eye

*JPS 1917:* And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

[Numbers 24:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.15/#tree)

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נְאֻ֤ם בִּלְעָם֙ בְּנ֣וֹ בְעֹ֔ר וּנְאֻ֥ם הַגֶּ֖בֶר שְׁתֻ֥ם הָעָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lifted.up oracle his and he.said the.utterance of.Balaam son the of.Beor and the.utterance of the.man (the).opened of the.eye

*JPS 1917:* And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8365.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8365/): 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).