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חֹתֶמֶת

cho.te.met

ring

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Strong’s H2858Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

seal1

In the text

Genesis 38:25הַחֹתֶמֶת
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֹתֶ֫מֶת n.f. signet-ring—only Gn 38:25

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.