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To shut

אָטַרStrong’s H0332

atar (a-tar)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

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Atar is the Hebrew word usually translated “it close”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.”
Psalms 69:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) shutto shut up, close, bind · close one's mouth
How it's translated
  • it close 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    אָטַר atar · to shut

    1) (Qal) shut 1a) to shut up, close, bind 1b) close one's mouth

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    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.

    1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.
    2. To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
    3. To preclude; to exclude.
    4. To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.
    All definitions and other forms of “shut”
    1. Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another.
    2. To obstruct.
    3. To confine; to imprison; to lock or fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
    4. 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
    5. 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

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

      SHUT, noun

      1. Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [Little used.]
      2. 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.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.