# gmar chatimah tovah (גְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה)

pronounced: gmar cha-ti-MA to-VA


**“A good final sealing” — the Yom Kippur greeting: may the year's verdict be sealed for good**

## In Scripture

> Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
> — Song of Songs 8:6 (The root of chatimah — a seal set on the heart, as love's own claim.)

> But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
> — Daniel 12:4 (A book sealed until its time — the image the greeting borrows for the year's verdict.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/gmar-chatimah-tovah/