חֹתֶמֶת
chôthemeth · H2858 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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seal, signet
Engraved object; made out of metal; used to make a mark denoting ownership, approval, or closure of something (normally done by pressing into clay or heated wax and usually attached to a document or letter); sometimes worn on a chain around the neck, or in the form of a ring on one's hand; regarded as valuable and associated with exclusivity
ExamplesGenesis 38:25 It was while she was being brought out that she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, “I am pregnant by the man to whom these things belong.” She also said, “Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלֶּהthese 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִיwho? 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- טַבַּעַת ṭabbaʻath · H2885 · ring, signet ring
- Both words denote types of rings worn on the body; חֹתֶמֶת “signet” is specifically a seal-ring, while טַבַּעַת “ring” is the general term, so a signet is a specialized kind of ring and the two can refer to overlapping referents in context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Jewellery001003001001011
- חֹתֶמֶת names a signet, an engraved seal worn or used as a mark of identity and authority.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2858. chothemeth חֹתֶ֫מֶת noun feminine signet-ring — only ׳הַח Gen 38:25 (J; for I.…
חֹתֶ֫מֶת noun feminine signet-ring — only ׳הַח Gen 38:25 (J; for I. חֹתָם Gen 38:18) the signet-ring (according to BöNÄ i. 23 feminine collective the sealing-apparatus).
I. חתן (√ of following; probably circumcise; compare Arabic circumcise, circumcision, circumcision-feast).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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