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# אָטַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H332

**shut up** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shut up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/332/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָטַר: vb. shut up, close, bind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/332/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shut up, close, bind (Arabic أَطَرَ bend, curve, إِطَارٌ what surrounds, encloses) Impf. 3 fs. תֶּאְטַר ψ 69:16 (אַל תּ׳ עָלַי בְּאֵר פִּיהָ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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: let it close (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.16/#tree)

אַל־תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי ׀ שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת מַ֭יִם וְאַל־תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי מְצוּלָ֑ה וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר־עָלַ֖י בְּאֵ֣ר פִּֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* not let it.overflow.me a.flood of.water and not let it.swallow.me.up \[the\].deep and not let.it.close over me \[the\].pit mouth its

*JPS 1917:* Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/332.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/332/): 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).