סָתַם çâtham — (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as closed up, hidden, secret, shut out, stop.
or שָׂתַם; (Numbers 24:15), a primitive root; to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret.
çâtham in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2Imperative 2Infinitive construct 1Wayyiqtol 1
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 1
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›