חָסַם châçam — to muzzle

pronounced khaw-sam' · Strong's H2629 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as muzzle, stop.

a primitive root; to muzzle; by analogy, to stop the nose.

châçam in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 2×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (active) 1

תַחְסֹ֥ם Deut 25:4 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. (KJV)

וְחֹסֶ֥מֶת Ezek 39:11 Participle (active), feminine singular

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon–gog. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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