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# גּוּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1479

**shut** — 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 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1479/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוּף: vb. shut, close [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1479/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shut, close (NH id., v. NHWB i. 314, 352)— Impf. juss. יָגִ֫יפוּ Ne 7:3 close (doors, דלתות).

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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let them shut (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.3/#tree)

וָאֹמַ֣ר לָהֶ֗ם לֹ֣א יִפָּֽתְח֞וּ שַׁעֲרֵ֤י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ עַד־חֹ֣ם הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ וְעַ֨ד הֵ֥ם עֹמְדִ֛ים יָגִ֥יפוּ הַדְּלָת֖וֹת וֶאֱחֹ֑זוּ וְהַעֲמֵ֗יד מִשְׁמְרוֹת֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם אִ֚ישׁ בְּמִשְׁמָר֔וֹ וְאִ֖ישׁ נֶ֥גֶד בֵּיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and I.said to them not they.will.be.opened the.gates of.Jerusalem until the.heat of the.sun and until they \[are\].standing.guard let.them.shut the doors and bolt.\[them\] and appoint the.guards of.the.inhabitants of.Jerusalem someone at his.guard post and someone before house his

*JPS 1917:* And I said unto them: 'Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand on guard, let them shut the doors, and bar ye them; and let watches be appointed of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1479.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1479/): 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).