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To shut

גּוּףStrong’s H1479

guph

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Guph is the Hebrew word usually translated “let them shut”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.”
Nehemiah 7:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To shut, close(Hiphil) to close
How it's translated
  • let them shut 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Nehemiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    גּוּף guph · to shut

    1) to shut, close 1a) (Hiphil) to close

    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.