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To stop

סָכַרStrong’s H5534

sakhar (sa-khar)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sakhar is the Hebrew word usually translated “were shut up”, “it will be shut up” and “hand over”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;”
Genesis 8:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. To shut up, stop up(Niphal) to be stopped, be shut up · (Piel) to shut up, give over
How it's translated
  • and they were shut up 1
  • it will be shut up 1
  • and i will hand over 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • Psalms 1
  • Isaiah 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

סָכַר sakhar · to stop

1) to shut up, stop up 1a) (Niphal) to be stopped, be shut up 1b) (Piel) to shut up, give over

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

STOP, verb transitive

[G., to stop to check, to pose, to fill, to cram, to stuff, to quilt, to darn, to mend. See Stifle. Latin, tow; to stuff, to crowd; to be stupefied, whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop or a stop ]

The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]

  1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop a vent; to stop the ears; to stop wells of water. 2 Kings 3:19
  2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road or passage.
  3. To hinder; to impede; to arrest progress; as, to stop a passenger in the road; to stop the course of a stream.
  4. To restrain; to hinder; to suspend; as to stop the execution of a decree.
All definitions and other forms of “stop”
  1. To repress; to suppress; to restrain; as, to stop the progress of vice.
  2. To hinder; to check; as, to stop the approaches of old age or infirmity.
  3. To hinder from action or practice.
  4. To put an end to any motion or action; to intercept; as, to stop the breath; to stop proceedings.
  5. To regulate the sounds of musical strings; as, to stop a string.
  6. In seamanship, to make fast.
  7. To point; as a written composition. [Not in use.]

STOP, verb intransitive

  1. To cease to go forward.
  2. To cease from any motion or course of action.

STOP, noun

  1. Cessation of progressive motion; as, to make a stop
  2. Hindrance of progress; obstruction; act of stopping.
  3. Repression; hindrance of operation or action.
  4. Interruption.
  5. Prohibition of sale; as the stop of wine and salt.
  6. That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment.
  7. The instrument by which the sounds of wind music are regulated; as the stops of a flute or an organ.
  8. Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.
  9. The act of applying the stops in music.
  10. A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading.

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.