חָתַם châtham — to close up
Translated in the KJV as make an end, mark, seal, stop.
a primitive root; to close up; especially to seal.
châtham in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 10Wayyiqtol 3Imperative 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive absolute 1Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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.
Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
Niph'al
Participle (passive) 1Infinitive absolute 1
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.
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.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1
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.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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 ›
