To shutter
אָטַםStrong’s H0331atam (a-tam)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atam is the Hebrew word usually translated “shuts”, “closed” and “shut”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.”
Meaning
- To shut, shut up, close(Qal) to shut, stop (of lips) · (Hiphil) of the wicked stopping their ears (fig.)
How it's translated
- shuts 3
- closed 3
- shut 1
- it shuts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Proverbs 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Proverbs 17:28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
- Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
- Ezekiel 40:16And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 41:16The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
Hebrew dictionary
אָטַם atam · to shutter
1) to shut, shut up, close 1a) (Qal) to shut, stop (of lips) 1b) (Hiphil) of the wicked stopping their ears (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shutter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHUT'TER, noun
- A person that shuts or closes.
- A door; a cover; something that closes a passage; as the shutters of a window.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.