shut (to rove) · Rightly

Meaning

To go, go or rove about, go to and fro(Qal) to go or rove about · (Polel) to go to and fro, go eagerly or quickly to and fro · (Hithpolel) to run to and fro
To row

How it's translated

roving about 2
from roving about 2
they will rove about 2
they went about 1
go about 1
and they went about 1
rove about 1
and run to and fro 1

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

Where it's used most

2 Samuel 2
Job 2
Jeremiah 2
Ezekiel 2
Numbers 1
2 Chronicles 1

9 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Zechariah 4:10In contextFor who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Numbers 11:8And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
2 Samuel 24:2For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
2 Samuel 24:8So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Job 1:7And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

All 13 verses, by book

Numbers 1: 11:8
2 Samuel 2: 24:2 24:8
2 Chronicles 1: 16:9
Job 2: 1:7 2:2
Jeremiah 2: 5:1 49:3
Ezekiel 2: 27:8 27:26
Daniel 1: 12:4
Amos 1: 8:12
Zechariah 1: 4:10

Hebrew dictionary

שׁוּט shut · to rove

1) to go, go or rove about, go to and fro 1a) (Qal) to go or rove about 1b) (Polel) to go to and fro, go eagerly or quickly to and fro 1c) (Hithpolel) to run to and fro

שׁוּט shut · to row

to row

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

ROVE, verb intransitive

[Latin rapio.]

All definitions and other forms of “rove”

ROVE, verb transitive

To wander over; as roving a field; roving the town. This is an elliptical form of expression, for roving over, through or about the town.

ROVE, verb transitive

To draw a thread, string or cord through an eye or aperture.

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