STRONGS NUMBER H8365


Word Summary
shatham: probably to stop up
Original Word: שָׁתַם
Transliteration: 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 שׁתםopen [vessel]); — only

Qal Passive participle construct הְעָ֑יִן שְׁתֻם הַגֶּבֶרNumbers 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.