STRONGS NUMBER H2413


Word Summary
chatam: to hold in, restrain
Original Word: חָטַם
Transliteration: chatam
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to hold in, restrain
Meaning: to hold in, restrain
Strong's Concordance
refrain

A primitive root; to stop -- refrain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2413. chatam

חָטַםverb hold in, restrain (Arabic strike the nose, attach the = camel-halter, noun muzzle, nose of beast; Late Hebrew חֲטָםnose-ring of camel, חוֺטָם‎; Aramaic חוּטְמָאnose; compare חטם‎, Inscription Zinjirli; according to DHMSendsch. 34, of taming wild beasts) —

Qal Imperfect ׃ הַכְרִיֶתךָ לְבִלְתִּי אֶחֱטָםלָֿ֑ךְIsaiah 48:9 I will restrain for thee (mine anger), not to cut thee off ("" אַמִּי אַאֲרִיךְ‎).