Lexical Summary shatham: probably to stop up Original Word: שָׁתַםTransliteration: shatham Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-tham') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: probably to stop up Meaning: probably to stop up Strong's Concordance be open A primitive root; to unveil (figuratively) -- be open. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8365. shatham [שָׁתַם] verb dubious; if text correct, open (Late Hebrew Aramaic שׁתם open [vessel]); — only Qal Passive participle construct הְעָ֑יִן שְׁתֻם הַגֶּבֶר Numbers 24:3, 15 (poems in J E) the man opened of [mental] eye, so ᵑ6 Ki Ew and others RVm; ᵑ9 Rö Ke Di and others render closed of [bodily] eye, reading then implicity שְׂתֻם (compare שָׂתַם סָתַם, Lamentations 3:8); see further Gray. [הִשְׁתִּין שׁתן,] see שִׁין. |
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