UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Sense 1: to stop up

Semantic domains: Close (002001001013)

Core domains: Water (189)

Definition: = action by which a person or group clogs or blocks a natural flow of water

Forms: vbqal-; vbpiel

Show passage in OET: GEN 26:15

OET-RV GEN 26:15

15 they blocked up all the wells that his father’s slaves had dug when his father Avraham had been alive, and they filled them with dirt.

OET-LV GEN 26:15

15 And_all the_wells which the _servants _of his/its_father they _had _dug in_the _days _of ʼAⱱrāhām his/its_father they_stopped _them _up the_Pəlishtiy and_they_filled _them earth.

Show passage in OET: GEN 26:18

OET-RV GEN 26:18

18 Then he returned and dug out the water wells that they had dug in the days of Avraham his father and that the Pelishtim had blocked up after Avraham’s death, and he called them similar names to the ones that his father had called them.

OET-LV GEN 26:18

18 And_ Yiʦḩāq _he _returned and_he _dug DOM the _wells _of the_waters which people _had _dug in_the _days _of ʼAⱱrāhām his/its_father and_they_had _stopped _them _up the_Pəlishtiy after the _death _of ʼAⱱrāhām and_he/it _called (to)_them names like_names which he _had _called (to)_them his/its_father.

Jump to OET GEN 26:15 section.

Jump to OET GEN 26:18 section.

All 7 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 26:15 · OET GEN 26:18

KI2: OET KI2 3:19 · OET KI2 3:25

CH2: OET CH2 32:3–4 · OET CH2 32:30

Sense 2: to be closed > to repair

Semantic domains: Close (002001001013)

Core domains: Construction (045)

Definition: = passive action by which something, like a hole or crack, is filled in

Forms: vbnif- (passive)

Show passage in OET: NEH 4:1

OET-RV NEH 4:7

7 Now when Sanvalat, and Toviyah, and the Aravim, and the Amonim, and the Ashdodim heard that the Yerushalem (Jerusalem) walls were getting repaired and the breaks were beginning to be closed up, it made them extremely angry

OET-LV NEH 4:1

4  And_he/it _was when_when Şanⱱallaţ and_Ţōⱱiy^yāh and_the_ˊArāⱱī and_the_ˊAmmōnī and_the_Ashdodites he _heard if/because _that the_repair of_the _walls _of of _Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) it _had _gone _up if/because _that the _broken_down_parts they _had _begun to_be _stopped _up and_it _glowed/burnt to/for_them exceedingly.

Jump to OET NEH 4:7 section.

Sense 3: to keep secret

Semantic domains: Non-Know (002004002008)

Core domains: Secrecy (153)

Definition: literally, to shut or close; hence = action by which a fact or some knowledge is shut or hidden from awareness

Forms: vbqal-

Show passage in OET: PSA 51:8

OET-RV PSA 51:6

6 You desire integrity in my inner self,
⇔ ≈ and you teach me wisdom in the secret place within.

OET-LV PSA 51:8

8  HERE faithfulness you _desire in_parts and_in_a_place_kept _secret wisdom you_cause _me _to _know.

Show passage in OET: EZE 28:3

OET-RV EZE 28:3

3 Listen, you king of Tsor, are you wiser than Daniyel was? Are there any secrets that you don’t already know?

OET-LV EZE 28:3

3 THERE are_wise you mmm all _of that _which _is_kept _secret not people_hold _dark _from _you.

Jump to OET PSA 51:6 section.

Jump to OET EZE 28:3 section.

All 5 recorded passages for this sense

PSA: OET PSA 51:6

EZE: OET EZE 28:3

DAN: OET DAN 8:26 · OET DAN 12:4 · OET DAN 12:9

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

סתם

Form 1

Sense 1: to stop up

Sense 2: to be closed > to repair

Sense 3: to keep secret