Chatam חָתַם

Chatam (Hebrew חָתַם, Strong's H2856) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to seal”. It occurs 26 times in 24 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Chatam, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 15:3
  And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 32:34
  Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 21:8
  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 9:38
  And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
• Nehemiah 10:1
  Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,Now these were the ones who sealed the document: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah,

Esther

• Esther 3:12
  Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring.On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
• Esther 8:8
  Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
• Esther 8:10
  And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

Job

• Job 9:7
  Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
• Job 14:17
  My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
• Job 24:16
  In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
• Job 33:16
  Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
• Job 37:7
  He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 4:12
  A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 8:16
  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.
• Isaiah 29:11
  And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 32:10
  And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
• Jeremiah 32:11
  So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—
• Jeremiah 32:14
  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
• Jeremiah 32:44
  Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 28:12
  Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Daniel

• Daniel 9:24
  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Daniel 12:4
  But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
• Daniel 12:9
  And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).