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# אָטַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H331

**shut** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shut [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/331/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אטם: vb. shut, shut up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/331/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shut, shut up (Mish. אטם, cf. אוֹטֶם stoppage, Aramaic אֲטַם; Ar. أَطَمَ contract, stop, أُطُمٌ fortress; As. aṭamu, in list of headgear, etc. = turban? DlW, No. 155)— Pt. act. אֹטֵם Pr 17:28 + 2 textual; pass. אֲטֻמִים 1 K 6:4; אֲטֻמוֹת Ez 40:16 + 2 times;—shut, stop, obj. lips Pr 17:28; ears 21:13 Is 33:15; pass. = closed (i.e. narrowed, narrowing, cf. 𝔖 in Co) חַלּוֹנוֹת א׳ Ez 40:16; 41:16, 26; cf. חַלּוֹנֵי שְׁקֻפִים אֲטֻמִים 1 K 6:4. Impf. i.q. Qal יַאְטֵם ψ 58:5 (juss. with sense of indic., cf. Dr§ 173 obs.) of adder, stopping ears, sim. of wicked.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: closed (4); \[one who\] shuts (3); \[which\] it shuts (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.4/#tree)

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ לַבָּ֔יִת חַלּוֹנֵ֖י שְׁקֻפִ֥ים אֲטֻמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.made for the house windows of.frames closed

*JPS 1917:* And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without.

[Proverbs 17:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.28/#tree)

גַּ֤ם אֱוִ֣יל מַ֭חֲרִישׁ חָכָ֣ם יֵחָשֵׁ֑ב אֹטֵ֖ם שְׂפָתָ֣יו נָבֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* also a.fool \[who\].keeps.silent a.wise.\[person\] he.is.considered \[one.who\].shuts lips his \[one.who\].has.understanding

*JPS 1917:* Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed as a man of understanding.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/331.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/331/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).