Lexical Definition

‎שָׁתַם‎ shâtham (shaw-tham') to open ^H:V
a primitive root

be open.

• to unveil (figuratively)

1) (Qal) to open
1a) meaning dubious

See Greek: ἀληθινός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שָׁתַם‎] verb dubious; if text correct, open (Late Hebrew Aramaic ‎שׁתם‎ open [vessel]); — only Qal Passive participle construct ‎הַגֶּבֶר שְׁתֻם הְעָ֑יִן‎ Num 24:3; Num 24:15 (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 ‎סָתַם‎, ‎שָׂתַם‎ Lam 3:8); see further Gray. [‎שׁתן‎, ‎הִשְׁתִּין‎] see ‎שִׁין‎.

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