kleiō (to shut) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “shut”, “having shut” and “shut up”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

shut 4
to shut 2
having shut 1
you shut up 1
was shut 1
was shut up 1
has been shut 1
were shut 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Revelation 5
Matthew 3
Luke 2
John 2
Acts 2
1 John 1

6 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Matthew 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew 25:10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Luke 4:25But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
Luke 11:7And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
John 20:19Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
John 20:26And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

All 15 verses, by book

Matthew 3: 6:6 23:13 25:10
Luke 2: 4:25 11:7
John 2: 20:19 20:26
Acts 2: 5:23 21:30
1 John 1: 3:17
Revelation 5: 3:7 3:8 11:6 20:3 21:25

Greek dictionary

κλείω kleiō · to shut

κλείω [in LXX chiefly for סָגַר ;] to shut: θύραν, Mat.6:6; τ. ἄβυσσον, Rev.20:3; pass., θύρα, Mat.25:10, Luk.11:7 (pl.), Jhn.20:19, 26, Act.21:30; δεσμωτήριον, Act.5:23; πυλῶνες, Rev.21:25. Metaphorical, τ. οὐρανόν, Luk.4:25, Rom.11:6; τ. σπλάγχνα, 1Jn.3:17; τ. βασιλείαν, Mat.23:14; id. absol., Rev.3:7; τ. θύραν, Rev.3:8. (cf. ἀπο-, ἐκ-, κατα-, συν-κλείω.) † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “shut” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SHUT, verb transitive

pretand participle passive shut.

To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.
To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
To preclude; to exclude.
To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.

All definitions and other forms of “shut”

Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another.
To obstruct.
To confine; to imprison; to lock or fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
To confine by legal or moral restraint.“Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed” Galatians 3:23
To end; to terminate; to conclude.

SHUT, verb intransitive

To close itself; to be closed. The door shuts of itself; it shuts hard. Certain flowers shut at night and open in the day.

SHUT, participle passive

Closed; having the entrance barred.
adjective Rid; clear; free.

SHUT, noun

Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [Little used.]
A small door or cover; But shutter is more generally used.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.