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# אִטֵּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H334

**shut up** — used 2 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 up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/334/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִטֵּר: adj. shut up, bound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/334/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. shut up, bound (NH אִטֵּר, lame) אִישׁ א׳ יַד־יְמִינוֹ Ju 3:15; 20:16 a man bound, restricted, as to his right hand, i.e. left-handed.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: impeded (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 20:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.16/#tree)

מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ כָּל־זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּאֶ֛בֶן אֶל־הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* \[were\].from all the people (the) this seven hundred(s) man chosen impeded the.hand his.right.side his all this \[was\].slinging with the stone to the.single hair and not he.missed

*JPS 1917:* All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

[Judges 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.15/#tree)

וַיִּזְעֲק֣וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ אֶל־יְהוָה֒ וַיָּקֶם֩ יְהוָ֨ה לָהֶ֜ם מוֹשִׁ֗יעַ אֶת־אֵה֤וּד בֶּן־גֵּרָא֙ בֶּן־הַיְמִינִ֔י אִ֥ישׁ אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ וַיִּשְׁלְח֨וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל בְּיָדוֹ֙ מִנְחָ֔ה לְעֶגְל֖וֹן מֶ֥לֶךְ מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and they.cried.out the.people of.Israel to Yahweh and he.raised.up Yahweh for them a.deliverer (et) Ehud the.son of.Gera the.Ben- (the) jaminite a.man impeded the.hand his.right.side his and they.sent the.people of.Israel by hand his tribute to Eglon the.king of.Moab

*JPS 1917:* But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed; and the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/334.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/334/): 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).