סָתַם (śātam) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning stop up. It appears
14 times
in 8 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H5640).
Also rendered
to close
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2296)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2296)stop up, shut out; stop, repair, keep secret; closed up, hidden, secret
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
שָׂתַםverb: stop up, shut out
usually stop up, in sense of shut out, shut ears against
Strong's H5640סָתַם: to stop up; by implication, to repair; figuratively, to keep secret KJV:closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.