שָׂטַם
to hate
also: oppose oneself to, bear a grudge, retain animosity against fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7852 appears in the Book of Psalms — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb שטם centers on the idea of “to hate.” Genesis dominates its distribution — 3 of 6 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Genesis 27:41, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses — beyond “to hate” it also covers “oppose oneself to”, “bear a grudge”, and “retain animosity against”. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7852 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hate us 1×, Hated 1×, Hated him 1×
- American Standard Version: Anger they persecute me 1×, Hated 1×, Him 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bears a grudge 1×, Held a grudge 1×, Hostility 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Harass him 1×, Hated 1×, Hates us 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7852 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7852 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7852 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7852 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to hate, oppose oneself to, bear a grudge, retain animosity against, cherish animosity against
- (Qal) to cherish animosity against
Word origin
[ שָׂטַם ] vb. bear a grudge, cherish animosity, against
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׂטַם
- (b. h; cmp. טמם) to lie in wait for; to bear a grudge against, persecute. Gen. R. s. 67, v. סִנְטֵר. Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᶜ (expl. ריש̇ט̇ם̇, Gen. XXVII, 41) ש̇נאה ט̇מ̇ונה hidden hatred. Pesik. R. s. 13 יוסף … יַיִּשְׂטְמוּהוּ והיו … ששוֹטְמָם וכ׳ his brothers sinned against Joseph, ‘and they persecuted him’ (Gen. XLIX, 23), and his brothers thought that he would persecute them as they did him; אבל עשו כששְׂטָמוֹ ליעקב וכ׳ but when Esau persecuted Jacob &c.; a. e. e.g. Genesis 27:41
- to be hated, persecuted. Num. R. s. 145 זה נ׳ וזה נ׳ this one (Jacob) was hated (Gen. XXVII, 41), and that one (Joseph) was hated (ib. XLIX, 23). e.g. Genesis 27:41
שְׂטַם
- Targ. Y. Gen. XXVII, 41 Levita.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H7852 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/יִּשְׂטֹ֤ם | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 27:41 | 1 |
| וַֽ/יִּשְׂטְמֵ֗/נִי | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 16:9 | 1 |
| וַֽ/יִּשְׂטְמֻ֖/הוּ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Genesis 49:23 | 1 |
| יִשְׂטְמֵ֖/נוּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 50:15 | 1 |
| יִשְׂטְמֽוּ/נִי | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Psalms 55:3 | 1 |
| תִשְׂטְמֵֽ/נִי | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 30:21 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
