Lexical Summary chatam: to hold in, restrain Original Word: חָטַםTransliteration: chatam Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tam') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to hold in, restrain Meaning: to hold in, restrain Strong's Concordance refrain A primitive root; to stop -- refrain. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2413. chatam חָטַם verb hold in, restrain (Arabic strike the nose, attach the = camel-halter, noun muzzle, nose of beast; Late Hebrew חֲטָם nose-ring of camel, חוֺטָם; Aramaic חוּטְמָא nose; compare חטם, Inscription Zinjirli; according to DHMSendsch. 34, of taming wild beasts) — Qal Imperfect ׃ הַכְרִיֶתךָ לְבִלְתִּי אֶחֱטָםלָֿ֑ךְ Isaiah 48:9 I will restrain for thee (mine anger), not to cut thee off ("" אַמִּי אַאֲרִיךְ). |
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