# חָתַם (chatam)

Israeli respelling: cha-tam. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2856. 24 Old Testament occurrences.

to close up; especially to seal

King James renderings: make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chatam-h2856

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 unc…
- [Deuteronomy 32:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/34) — Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
- [1 Kings 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Nehemiah 9:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Nehemiah 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/1) — Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
- [Esther 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 command…
- [Esther 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Esther 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Job 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/7) — Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
- [Job 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/17) — My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
- [Job 24:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/16) — In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- [Job 33:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/16) — Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
- [Job 37:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/7) — He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
- [Song of Solomon 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/12) — A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
- [Isaiah 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/16) — Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
- [Isaiah 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/10) — And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
- [Jeremiah 32:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Jeremiah 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 eviden…
- [Jeremiah 32:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 28:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wisdo…
- [Daniel 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 r…
- [Daniel 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 in…
- [Daniel 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/12/9) — And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
