naal (to lock) · Rightly

Meaning

To bar, lock, bolt(Qal) to bar, lock, bolt
To furnish with sandals, shoe(Qal) to shoe · (Hiphil) to give sandals

How it's translated

locked 3
and he locked 2
and lock 1
and they shod them 1
and i shod you 1

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

Where it's used most

Judges 2
2 Samuel 2
2 Chronicles 1
Song of Solomon 1
Ezekiel 1

5 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Judges 3:24When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
2 Samuel 13:17Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
2 Samuel 13:18And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king’s daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
2 Chronicles 28:15And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
Song of Solomon 4:12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Ezekiel 16:10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

Hebrew dictionary

נָעַל naal · to lock

1) to bar, lock, bolt 1a) (Qal) to bar, lock, bolt

נָעַל naal · to shoe

1) to furnish with sandals, shoe 1a) (Qal) to shoe 1b) (Hiphil) to give sandals

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

LOCK, noun

[Latin floccus, Eng. lock ]

lock in its primary sense, is any thing that fastens; but we now appropriate the word to an instrument composed of a spring, wards, and a bolt of iron or steel, used to fasten doors, chests and the like.
The part of a musket or fowling-piece or other fire-arm, which contains the pan, trigger, etc.
The barrier or works of a canal, which confine the water, consisting of a dam, banks or walls, with two gates or pairs of gates, which may be opened or shut at pleasure.
A grapple in wrestling.

All definitions and other forms of “lock”

Any inclosure.
A tuft of hair; a plexus of wool, hay or other like substance; a flock; a ringlet of hair.

LOCK'-KEEPER, noun

One who attends the locks of a canal.

LOCK'-PADDLE, noun

A small sluse that serves to fill and empty a lock

LOCK'-SIL, noun

An angular piece of timber at the bottom of a lock against which the gates shut.

LOCK'-WEIR, noun

A paddle-weir, in canals, an over-fall behind the upper gates, by which the waste water of the upper pound is let down through the paddle-holes into the chamber of the lock

LOCK, verb transitive

To fasten with a particular instrument; as, to lock a door; to lock a trunk.
To shut up or confine, as with a lock; as, to be locked in a prison. lock the secret in your breast.
To close fast.
To embrace closely; as, to lock one in the arms.
To furnish with locks, as a canal.
To confine; to restrain.
In fencing, to seize the sword-arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, after closing the parade, shell to shell, in order to disarm him.

LOCK, verb intransitive

To become fast.
To unite closely by mutual insertion; as, they lock into each other.

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